7 – Nagasaki Shipyard, as predecessor of an aircraft and shipbuilding manufacturing brand in Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was founded in Kyushu Island. July 14 – German administration is established in Cameroon. July 23 – Today's Courier records the first tennis tournaments held on the grounds of Shrubland Hall, Leamington Spa, England. August 5 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island, in New York Harbor. August 10 – An earthquake measuring 5.5 affects a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock has a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Chimneys are toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Property damage is severe in Jamaica, Queens and Amityville, New York. August 22 – The Sino-French War (for control of Tonkin) breaks out (continues to April 1885). August 23 – Sino-French War – Battle of Fuzhou: French Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron virtually destroys China's Fujian Fleet. September 5 – Staten Island Academy is founded. September 15 – The invention of local anesthesia by Karl Koller is made public at a medical congress in Heidelberg, Germany. September 23–24 – On the night of 23 to 24, September steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes, leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold and beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush. October–December October 6 – The United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island. October 18 – The University of Wales, Bangor (UK), is founded. October 22 The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian. Letitia Alice Walkington becomes the first woman to receive a degree from the Royal University of Ireland. November 1 The Irish Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Thurles, Ireland. Leicester City F.C. play their first match, as Leicester Fosse Football Club, in England. November 2 – Timișoara, Romania, is the first town in Europe with streets illuminated by electric light. November 4 – 1884 United States presidential election: Democratic Governor of New York Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest, to win the first of his non-consecutive terms. November 15 – The Berlin Conference, which regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa, begins (ends February 26, 1885). December 1 American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys, who