By the mid-1880s, the school ’ s curriculum had expanded to include programs in pharmacy, engineering, law, and business.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

In mid-1880s there were developed torpedo gunboats, like the Spanish Destructor, but they were considered too slow to catch torpedo boats because of the popular belief that the speeds attained by torpedo boats in trial conditions equated to speeds obtainable in service.

This was followed by the collection The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems ( 1889 ), which arranged a series of verse that dated as far back as the mid-1880s.

In New Zealand, prohibition was a moralistic reform movement begun in the mid-1880s by the Protestant evangelical and Nonconformist churches and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and after 1890 by the Prohibition League.

French troops landed in Vietnam in 1858 and by the mid-1880s they had established a firm grip over the northern region.

Their relationship soured by the mid-1880s, as Whistler turned against Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement.

Ellsworth was a bustling cattle town for a time during the late 1860s but its cattle trade had dwindled down by the mid-1880s.

Already the commercial and population center of East Providence, by the mid-1880s, Watchemoket next became the political center as well.

The population rose to 1, 703 in the 1860 census, 2, 900 by the mid-1880s, and 4, 297 in 1900.

Menardville had approximately 150 residents by the mid-1880s.

Waters in the mid-1880s claimed that the GAA had been founded by the Irish Republican Brotherhood with the intention of getting " the muscular youth of the country into an organisation, drilled and disciplined to form a physical power capable of over-awing and coercing the home rule government of the future ".

By the mid-1880s, it is estimated that 11 million ounces of gold ( worth approximately US $ 7. 5 billion at mid-2006 prices ) had been recovered by hydraulic mining in the California Gold Rush.

By the mid-1880s, Beaver Island had become the largest supplier of fresh-water fish consumed in the United States, but overfishing and changes in technology brought this bonanza to an end by the beginning of the 20th century.

The right-of-way now used by the Willamette Shore Trolley's was established in the mid-1880s by the Portland and Willamette Valley Railway, which began passenger service with steam trains on July 4, 1887.

These batteries were part of a program initiated by the Endicott Board, a group headed by a mid-1880s Secretary of War, William C. Endicott.

Chancellor Otto von Bismarck had been in power in Prussia and Germany for a generation, but by the mid-1880s the socio-political mood in Germany was changing.

This fashion was short-lived ( though the bustle would return again in the mid-1880s ), and was succeeded by a tight-fitting silhouette with fullness as low as the knees: the cuirass bodice, a form-fitting, long-waisted, boned bodice that reached below the hips, and the princess sheath dress.

In the mid-1880s, more wine was produced by volume in Missouri than in any other state.

Bison were hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to a few hundred by the mid-1880s.

The Library soon outgrew its premises and a new wing was built in the mid-1880s and again by the turn of the century this too was outgrown and plans were underway for a new ‘ national ’ library building.

The CPR acquired the International Railway in the mid-1880s and surveyed a line running directly from Megantic to a point on the E & NA ( then leased by the Maine Central ) at Mattawamkeag.

In the mid-1880s, she was receiving commissions from notable Philadelphians and earning $ 500 per portrait, comparable to what Eakins commanded.

He continued composing in traditional styles ranging from Rameau, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt until the mid-1880s.

Economic depression led some U. S. businessmen and politicians from the mid-1880s to come to the same conclusion as their European counterparts — that industry and capital had exceeded the capacity of existing markets and needed new outlets.

Patents for epicyclic hubs date from the mid-1880s.

By the mid-1880s, dedicated dining cars were a normal part of long-distance trains from Chicago to points west, save those of the Santa Fe Raiilway, which relied on America's first interstate network of restaurants to feed passengers en route.

* The Fifie was the predominant fishing boat on the east coast from the 1850s until the mid-1880s.

HCO houses a collection of approximately 500, 000 astronomical plates taken between the mid-1880s and 1989 ( with a gap from 1953 – 68 ).

This immigration lasted from the mid-1880s until 1930, although Norwegians were already working in Canada as early as 1814.

These were generally made from the late 1870s to the mid-1880s.

In the mid-1880s, the isthmus was also the site of one of Canada's earliest mega-projects: construction of a broad-gauge railway from the port of Amherst to the Northumberland Strait at Tidnish for carrying small cargo and passenger ships.

William Jessop had emigrated from Dublin in the mid-1880s to try his hand at sheep farming in the Argentina.

The haematite traffic dropped as steelworks moved to the area, but profits remained high ( and dividends averaged over 10 %) until the mid-1880s when processes were developed which allowed high-quality steel to be made from other iron ores ( and in more convenient locations ).

Cycling became a very popular day-tripper activity, especially amongst urban and suburban workers from the mid-1880s onwards.

The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2, 000 people.

The discovery of cinnabar – from which the metal mercury is extracted – in the mid-1880s, drew miners to the area, creating a city of 2, 000 people.

The Northern and Western Railway ( later the Canada Eastern Railway ) was built in the mid-1880s from Fredericton to Boisetown where it then ran along the Southwest Miramichi River through Chatham to terminate at the port at Loggieville, intersecting with the Intercolonial at Nelson.

Lesia Ukrainka began to write more prolifically from the mid-1880s.

Limmu-Ennarea was secured for Shewa by Ras Gobana Dacche following the decisive Battle of Embabo, without a single blow being struck ; however, when Ras Gobana fell from power a few years later in the mid-1880s, the entire Gibe region erupted in revolt.

The name Semporna means place of rest and was given after the British quelled resistance from the local Bajaus in the mid-1880s, changing it from Tong Talun.

A Liberal from his early years, he broke with the party over the issue of Home Rule in the mid-1880s and became a Liberal Unionist.

Both lakes held small greenback cutthroat trout from the early days of the Wild West, but in the mid-1880s reports circulated of much larger trout, up to in weight, with bright yellow fins.