1883
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| 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.[1]
- 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 be made 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.
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- 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.