1883
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 - 1883 - 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888
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
- 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.
- August 12 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
- August 26 - Krakatau volcano eruption (local time)
- Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (German bacteriologist) discovers the cholera bacillus.
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births
- January 3 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (+ 1967)
- January 6 - Khalil Gibran, poet, painter, novelist (+ 1931)
- January 10 - Francis X. Bushman[?], actor (+ 1966)
- January 10 - Aleksei Tolstoy[?], writer (+ 1945)
- February 15 - Sax Rohmer, author (+ 1959)
- February 7 - Eubie Blake, musician, composer (+ 1983)
- February 11 - Paul August von Klenau[?] Danish composer/conductor
- February 23 - Karl Jaspers[?], philosopher (+ 1969)
- February 23 - Victor Fleming, director (+ 1949)
- March 19 - Joseph Stilwell, American soldier (+ 1946)
- April 1 - Lon Chaney[?], actor (+ 1930)
- April 11 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
- May 18 - Walter Gropius, architect, founder of Bauhaus (+ 1969)
- May 20 - King Faisal I of Iraq (+ 1933)
- May 23 - Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., actor, cofounder of United Artists (+ 1939)
- July 4 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (+ 1970)
- July 29 - Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy
- August 23 - US General Jonathan Wainwright, Medal of Honor recipient
- November 8 - Arnold Bax, composer
- December 3 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer
- December 25 - Maurice Utrillo, a "Montmartre" artist
- Alberto Gerchunoff, Argentine writer
Deaths
- February 13 - Richard Wagner, German composer
- March 14 - Karl Marx, German philosopher
- April 30 - Edouard Manet, painter
- May 26 - Edward Sabine, astronomer
EDMUND CALAMY, Mr. CHARLES HEKLE, Mr. OBADIAH SEDGWICK,
BACHELER, and Mr. JOHN ELLLS, junior. The first seven of these, it will
Assembly; the others were, I think, all parish-ministers in or near
Poetry, History, and Philosophy, the licensers appointed were Sir
(successor of Gill the younger in the Head-mastership of St. Paul's
certain designated Judges and Serjeants-at-law; of Books of Heraldry, to
Prognostications, to the Reader in Mathematics at Gresham College for the
consequence--viz. "small pamphlets, portraitures, pictures and the like"
authority enough.[Footnote: The Ordinance is printed in the Lords
date (V. 335-6), and adds the names of the licensers, as appointed by the
Whether because Parliament itself now seemed in earnest for the control
exercise their powers and earn their perquisites, or because the Master
strengthened and worked hard (Mr. Samuel Bourne was Master, and Mr.
authors, printers, and publishers were brought at once into greater
were duly licensed and registered in the second half of the year 1643, or
registered in the preceding half-year.[Footnote: I ought to.
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