Editing 1884 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
[[File:HARPER'S WEEKLY-NewYork 6 June 1885.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[August 5]]: [[Statue of Liberty]] erection begins]]
* [[July 1]] &ndash; [[First International Forestry Exhibition]] opens in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Forestry Exhibition|newspaper=[[The Morning Post]]|location=London|date=1884-07-02|page=3}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] &ndash; The [[Dow Jones Transportation Average]], consisting of eleven transportation-related companies (nine railroads and two non-rail companies, Western Union and Pacific Mail), is created in the United States. The index is the oldest stock index to remain in use.
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[German Empire|Germany]] takes possession of [[Togoland]].
* [[July 7]] &ndash; Nagasaki Shipyard, predecessor of the Japanese [[aircraft]] and [[shipbuilding]] business [[Mitsubishi]], is founded on the island of [[Kyushu]].<ref>[[:ja:三菱重工長崎造船所#沿革]] (Japanese language edition) Retrieved on June 28, 2020.</ref>
* [[July 14]] &ndash; German administration is established in [[Cameroon]].
* [[July 23]] &ndash; The first tennis tournaments, held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall, [[Leamington Spa]], England, are recorded in today's ''Courier''.
* [[August 5]] &ndash; The cornerstone for the [[Statue of Liberty]] is laid on [[Bedloe's Island]] in [[New York Harbor]].
* [[August 10]] &ndash; An [[earthquake]] measuring 5.5 {{M|fa|link=y}} affects a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock has a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|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]].<ref>{{citation|last1=Stover|first1=C. W.|last2=Coffman|first2=J. L.|title=Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989|edition=Revised|series=U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bY0KAQAAIAAJyear|publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]]|pages=314–316}}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; The [[Sino-French War]] (for control of [[Tonkin]]) breaks out (continues to April [[1885]]).
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Sino-French War]]: [[Battle of Fuzhou]] &ndash; French Admiral [[Amédée Courbet]]'s [[Far East Squadron]] virtually destroys China's [[Fujian Fleet]].
* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Staten Island Academy]] is founded.
* [[September 15]] &ndash; The invention of [[local anesthesia]] by ophthalmologist [[Karl Koller (ophthalmologist)|Karl Koller]] is made public at a medical congress in [[Heidelberg]], Germany.
* [[September 23]]–[[September 24|24]] (night) &ndash; Steamship ''Arctique'' runs aground near [[Cape Virgenes]], leading to the discovery of nearby [[Placer mining|placer]] gold and beginning the [[Tierra del Fuego gold rush]].<ref>{{Cite journal|title=La minería aurífera en la región austral americana (1869-1950)|journal=[[Historia (history of the Americas journal)|Historia]]|url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-71942003003600009|last=Martinic Beros|first=Mateo|volume=36|doi=10.4067/S0717-71942003003600009|year=2003|doi-broken-date=November 1, 2024|language=Spanish|author-link=Mateo Martinic|access-date=January 25, 2021|archive-date=January 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129120413/https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-71942003003600009|url-status=dead}}</ref>