1883

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Template:C19YearInTopicX Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1883
2 Births
- 2.1 January-July
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

[edit] Events of 1883

[edit] January - March

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February 16: Ladies Home Journal begins (photo 1906).

January 10 - A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73.
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 - The Star of the Sea College is founded in Elsternwick, Victoria by the Irish Presentation Sisters.
March 5 - Gloucester City A.F.C. is formed.

[edit] April - June

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May 24: Brooklyn Bridge is opened.

May 24 - Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic after 13 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.
June 16 - Victoria Hall Disaster: A rush for treats results in 183 children being asphyxiated in a concert hall in Sunderland, England.
June 30 - First appearance of The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson as a serial in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature. Stevenson would complete the novel at the end of summer in France.

[edit] July - September

July 3 - SS Daphne disaster in Glasgow leaves 124 dead.
July 4 - Worlds first rodeo held in Pecos, TX.
July 22 - Zulu king Cetshwayo barely escapes rebel attack with his life.
August - King William's College is opened on the Isle of Man.
August 12 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
August 26-28 - Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano erupts 5:30 (local time): 163 villages are destroyed, 36,380 dead.
September 15
- The Bombay Natural History Society is founded.
- University of Texas at Austin opens to students.
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.

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August 26: Krakatoa volcano erupts.

[edit] October - December

October 1 - Sydney Boys High School is founded in Sydney, Australia. It is the first boys public school in Australia.
October 4
- The Boys' Brigade is founded in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the first Uniformed Youth Organization in existence.
- The Orient Express begins operation.
October 15 - The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional since the Court allowed private individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.
October 20 - Peru and Chile signed the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.
October 24 - Cardiff University, Wales, opens (under the name of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire)
October 30 - Two Clan na Gael dynamite bombs explode in the London underground, injuring several people. Next day Home Secretary Vernon Harcourt drafts 300 policemen to guard the underground and introduces the Explosives Bill. Public continues as before.
November 1 - Amsterdam: The first international colonial and export exhibition closed having had over 1 million visitors.
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 14 - Chile's National Library of Congress is founded
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.