1883 Calendar
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1883 Historical Event(s)
January 19, 1883
– The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
March 20, 1883
– The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
May 24, 1883
– The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
May 27, 1883
– Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
May 30, 1883
– In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
June 5, 1883
– The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
June 28, 1883
– In Milan in Italy inaugurated the first central European electricity power station.
August 17, 1883
– The first public performance of the Dominican Republic’s national anthem, Himno Nacional.
November 3, 1883
– American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
November 18, 1883
– American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
Who Were Born On 1883?
January 3, 1883
– Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
January 8, 1883
– Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (d. 1941)
February 13, 1883
– Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian director (d. 1922)
May 20, 1883
– King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
July 16, 1883
– Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965)
August 6, 1883
– Scott Nearing, American writer and educator (d. 1983)
August 19, 1883
– Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
October 31, 1883
– Marie Laurencin, French painter (d. 1956)
November 8, 1883
– Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
November 9, 1883
– Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)