Major Events
- Jan 19 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey
- May 24 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Chester A. Arthur and NY Governor Grover Cleveland
- Aug 27 Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 200 megatons of TNT and kills approximately 40,000 people
- Oct 4 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul
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1883 in Music
- Oct 22 New York's original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of Charles Gounod's opera "Faust"
- Dec 2 Johannes Brahms' "3rd Symphony in F" premieres with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
1883 in Sport
- May 1 Bob Rogers is acknowledged as the first American pro sports trainer when he is hired by the NY Athletic Club
Did You Know?
The last quagga (zebra subspecies with less slashes) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
Getulio Vargas
Douglas Fairbanks
John Maynard Keynes
Benito Mussolini
Coco Chanel
Cyrus EatonMore People Born in 1883
Fun Fact About 1883
Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia
Richard Wagner
Alexander H. Stephens
Karl Marx
Edouard Manet
Matthew Webb
Sojourner TruthMore 1883 Deaths
Articles About 1883
Brooklyn Bridge Opens
Lithograph depicting fireworks on the opening night of the Brooklyn BridgeMay 24
Krakatoa: The World’s Mightiest Explosion
The world’s biggest-ever explosion – 13,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb – happened on this day as eruptions of the Krakatoa volcano reached a climaxAugust 27
The Orient Express
Poster advertising the Orient Express scheduleOctober 4
Famous Weddings in 1883
- May 7 US Senator Albert B. Fall (21) weds Emma Garland Morgan in Clarksville, Texas
- Dec 9 Poet Rabindranath Tagore (22) weds Mrinalini Devi in an arranged marriage
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Chester A. Arthur
Otto von Bismarck
William Gladstone