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1883 Calendar

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•  May 20, 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano’s final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.
•  May 24, 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
•  June 28, 1883 – In Milan in Italy inaugurated the first central European electricity power station.
•  August 12, 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
•  August 17, 1883 – The first public performance of the Dominican Republic’s national anthem, Himno Nacional.
•  October 4, 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
•  October 20, 1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru’s involvement in the War of the Pacific.
•  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.
•  December 26, 1883 – The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland.

•  March 19, 1883 – Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1950)
•  May 9, 1883 – José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)
•  June 5, 1883 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
•  June 7, 1883 – Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
•  June 28, 1883 – Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
•  July 19, 1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-born American animator and film producer (d. 1972)
•  August 15, 1883 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (d. 1962)
•  September 10, 1883 – Jock Delves Broughton, British noble (d. 1942)
•  November 25, 1883 – Percy Marmont, British actor (d.1977)
•  December 11, 1883 – Victor McLaglen, English-born American actor (d. 1959)