1883

Years: 1880 1881 1882 - 1883 - 1884 1885 1886
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Contents

1 Events

1.1 Unknown date

2 Births

2.1 January-June
2.2 July-December
2.3 unknown date

3 Deaths

Events

January 16 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed
January 19 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service (Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas Edison.
February 16 - Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.
February 23 - Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law.
February 28 - The first vaudeville theater is opened, in Boston, Massachusetts.
March - An Australian Catholic school, Star of the Sea College is founded in Elsternwick, Victoria (now known as Gardenstown ) by the Irish Presentation Sisters .
May 24 - Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
May 30 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.
July 22 – Zulu king Cetshwayo barely escapes rebel attack with his life.
August 12 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
August 26 - 28 - Krakatau volcano eruption (local time)- 163 villages destroyed, 36380 dead.
September 15 - The Bombay Natural History Society is founded.
September 29 - A consortium of flour mill operators in Minneapolis, Minnesota form the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railway as a means to get their product to the Great Lakes ports but avoid the high tariffs of Chicago.
October 1 - Sydney Boys High School is founded in Sydney, Australia. It is the first boys public school in Australia.
October 15 - The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional since it allowed individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
November 3 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-8" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
November 18 - US and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
November 28 - Whitman College is chartered as a four-year college in Walla Walla, Washington.

Unknown date

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German.bacteriologist) discovers the cholera bacillus.
Antonio Gaudi begins to build Sagrada Familia cathedral.
Fabian Society founded.
Orient Express begins operation.

Births

Deaths

January 10 - Samuel Mudd, formerly doctor to John Wilkes Booth
January 23 - Gustave Doré, French artist
February 13 - Richard Wagner, German composer
February 17 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist, composer
March 14 - Karl Marx, German philosopher
April 30 - Edouard Manet, painter
May 24 - Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader
May 26 - Edward Sabine, astronomer
July 22 - Edward Ord, US army officer
October 30 - Robert Volkmann, composer

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