1883

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( 1880s: )     1883
The Brooklyn Bridge is opened, signalling the ascendancy of New York as a world metropolis
Year 1883

Events

• January 16 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States civil service, is passed.
• March 20 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is held.
• March 28 – Battle of Gia Cuc: A French force defeats a Vietnamese in northern Vietnam in the run-up to the Sino-French War.
• May 24 – Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic, after 13 years of construction.
• June 13 – Count Arvid Posse leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden. He is succeeded by Carl Johan Thyselius, the first non-aristocrat (Swedish ; "ofrälse") to serve as Swedish head of government, and Prime Minister.
• June 28 – In Milan, Italy the first central European electricity power station is inaugurated.
• September 11 – Major Evelyn Baring becomes Consul-General of Egypt under British rule.
• October 30 – Two Clan na Gael dynamite bombs explode in the London Underground, injuring several people. The next day, Home Secretary Vernon Harcourt drafts 300 policemen to guard the underground, and introduces the Explosives Bill.
• November 18 – U.S. and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
• December 16 - Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
• December 21 - The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.

Date unknown

• German bacteriologist Robert Koch discovers the cholera bacillus.
• Otto von Bismarck pushes the first social security law through the Reichstag.
• The British Parliament considers a major bill to allow Indian judges to try Europeans in India. The British community rises in protest, and defeats the measure.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Marmara University		Public	A leading institution of higher education in Turkey for 124 years
University of Texas at Austin		Flagship State university Space-grant university	The most liberal school in Texas.
University of Guayaquil		University	Traditionally left-wing politically active students
Sidwell Friends School			US deep state connected school
Cardiff University		Public	One of the ten largest UK universities.
University of North Dakota			Offers courses in unmanned aircraft systems operations
Auckland University		Public	the highest ranked New Zealand university
University of Auckland		Research Public	The largest university in New Zealand
UK Special Branch
NSPCC			British child protection charity

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Richard Wagner	22 May 1813	13 February 1883		Songwriter	German composer, theater director, polemicist, and conductor, with large cultural influence
Karl Marx	5 May 1818	14 March 1883	London UK	Author Socialism	Founder of Marxism, which has been interpreted many various ways ever since.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
William J. Donovan	1 January 1883	New York Buffalo	8 February 1959	Spook Soldier Deep politician	OSS director 1942-1945
Otto Niemeyer	1883		1971	Banker
Frank Nelson	1883		11 August 1966	Spook Politician	British civil servant, intelligence officer and politician.
Clement Attlee	3 January 1883	Surrey Putney UK	8 October 1967	Soldier Politician Lawyer	UK Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951
Gunnar Jahn	10 January 1883		31 January 1971	Economist Statistician Central banker	Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and Norwegian Central Bank
Compton Mackenzie	17 January 1883	West Hartlepool County Durham UK	30 November 1972	Author Whistleblower Spook Politician	His 1932 memoirs was the first time the Secret Intelligence Service was mentioned in print. The book was immediately withdrawn and all remaining copies were destroyed.
Nelson Dean Jay	7 March 1883	US Illinois Elmwood	6 June 1972	Financier	David Rockefeller said: “Dean Jay is important, if for no other reason, because he was one of the ten Americans to be invited to the first Bilderberg Conference.”
Joseph Stilwell	19 March 1883	US Florida Palatka	12 October 1946	Soldier
Rui Ennes Ulrich	20 April 1883	Portugal Lisbon	20 June 1966	Academic Businessperson	Portuguese academic
Henricus Sneevliet	13 May 1883	Rotterdam	13 April 1942	Politician
John Maynard Keynes	5 June 1883	Cambridge Cambridgeshire UK	21 April 1946	Economist Central banker	Very influential economist and Neo-Malthusian eugenicist, Director of the Bank of England in the 1940s
Franz Kafka	3 July 1883	Prague Austria-Hungary Bohemia	3 June 1924	Author	“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
Friedrich Flick	10 July 1883		20 July 1972	Businessperson	Friedrich Flick was a German industrialist and convicted Nazi war criminal. After the war, he reconstituted his businesses, becoming the richest person in West Germany, and one of the richest people in the world, at the time of his death in 1972.
Vittorio Valletta	28 July 1883		10 August 1967	Businessperson	Bilderberg Steering committee member who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s as senior executive for the Agnelli family's Fiat.
Benito Mussolini	29 July 1883	Italy Predappio	28 April 1945	Soldier Politician	Italian fascist dictator
Frederick Marquis	23 August 1883	Lancashire Salford UK Ordsall	14 December 1964	Politician
Norman Birkett	6 September 1883	Lancashire Ulverston	10 February 1962	Politician Judge Clergy	President of the Pilgrims Society 1958-1962
Cudbert Thornhill	4 October 1883	Tibet	1952	Spook
Harold Moulton	7 November 1883	US Michigan Le Roy	14 December 1965	Economist
Thomas Elmer Braniff	6 December 1883		10 January 1954	Businessperson	US businessman killed in plane crash

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