Notable Historical Events - 1883
1883 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
Battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War |
Jan 4 |
Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms |
Jan 6 |
Ontario Rugby Football Union forms |
Jan 10 |
Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt |
Jan 13 |
Fire in Circus Ferroni in Berditschoft, Poland, kills 430 |
Jan 13 |
Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo |
Jan 16 |
Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system |
Jan 16 |
Quebec Rugby Football Union forms |
Jan 19 |
The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. |
Jan 20 |
Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Aust MCG |
Jan 22 |
England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG |
Jan 30 |
England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test |
Feb 1 |
French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger |
Feb 7 |
Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger |
Feb 8 |
Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen |
Feb 10 |
Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kills 71 |
Feb 14 |
1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions |
Feb 16 |
"Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing |
Feb 17 |
A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London |
Feb 21 |
2nd French government of Ferry begins |
Feb 23 |
Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law |
Feb 23 |
American Anti-Vivisection Society organized (Phila) |
Feb 27 |
Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine |
Feb 28 |
1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston) |
Mar 3 |
Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy |
Mar 4 |
John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi |
Mar 19 |
Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes |
Mar 20 |
Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property |
Mar 24 |
1st telephone call between NY & Chicago |
Mar 31 |
1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit" |
Mar 31 |
Utrecht begins water pipe system |
Apr 2 |
Battle at Bamako: French assault on Fabous arm forces attack |
Apr 6 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Speckled Band" (BG) |
Apr 12 |
French troops under lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes occupy Bamako Senegal |
Apr 13 |
US prospecter Alfred Packer convicted of manslaughter though accused of cannibalism |
Apr 14 |
Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé" premieres in Paris |
Apr 16 |
Paul Kruger chosen as president of Transvaal |
Apr 23 |
John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government |
Apr 24 |
28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair |
May 1 |
"Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show |
May 1 |
Amsterdam World's Fair opens |
May 1 |
Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876 |
May 1 |
NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer |
May 4 |
John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) |
May 15 |
Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany |
May 17 |
Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha |
May 22 |
Cubs' Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out |
May 23 |
9th Kentucky Derby: William Donohue aboard Leonatus wins in 2:43 |
May 23 |
Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players |
May 24 |
Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland |
May 26 |
11th Preakness: G Barbee aboard Jacobus wins in 2:42.5 |
May 27 |
Tsar Alexander III crowned in Moscow |
May 30 |
Stampede caused by a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse kills 12 |
May 31 |
French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar |
Jun 2 |
1st night baseball under lights, Fort Wayne Indiana |
Jun 2 |
Chicago's "El" opens to traffic |
Jun 9 |
17th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard George Kinney wins in 2:42.5 |
Jun 16 |
1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2) |
Jun 16 |
The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children |
Jul 1 |
ANWB forms in Utrecht |
Jul 3 |
SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River Scotland; 195 die |
Jul 4 |
Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr |
Jul 16 |
7th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (2-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-3) |
Jul 24 |
Arabi Pasha declares a holy war in Egypt |
Jul 28 |
Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 |
Aug 1 |
A papyrus offered to British Museum for £10,000 (forgery) |
Aug 1 |
Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights |
Aug 1 |
Inland postal service begins in Great Britain |
Aug 12 |
The last quagga (zebra subspecies) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam. |
Aug 17 |
The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. |
Aug 21 |
Providence shuts out Phillies 28-0 |
Aug 23 |
Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors prior to 1888) |
Aug 27 |
Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people |
Aug 29 |
Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion |
Sep 6 |
Cub's Burns (extra bases), Williamson & Pfeiffer get 3 hits in 1 inn |
Sep 8 |
NY Giants score 13 runs in an inning against Phillies |
Sep 8 |
Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont |
Sep 11 |
James Cutler patents postal mail chute |
Sep 13 |
Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia |
Sep 21 |
1st direct US-Brazil telegraph connection |
Sep 24 |
National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky |
Oct 4 |
Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail |
Oct 4 |
First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. |
Oct 15 |
Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional |
Oct 20 |
Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed |
Oct 20 |
Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile |
Oct 22 |
1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden) |
Oct 22 |
Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust) |
Oct 30 |
Austria-Hungary, Germany and Romania sign military treaty |
Nov 3 |
Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) |
Nov 3 |
US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans |
Nov 3 |
American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture. |
Nov 5 |
Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army |
Nov 5 |
Musical "Cordelia's Aspirations" premieres in NYC |
Nov 6 |
NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race |
Nov 8 |
English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) |
Nov 10 |
Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship |
Nov 18 |
Antonin Dvorák's "Husitska" premieres |
Nov 18 |
Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada |
Dec 2 |
John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres |
Dec 3 |
48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes |
Dec 9 |
New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902) |
Dec 20 |
Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls |
Dec 22 |
August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres |
Dec 26 |
The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. |
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