Important Historical Events of the year 1883, Year 1883 in History

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Date	Event
January 16, 1883	The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
January 19, 1883	The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
February 23, 1883	Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
March 20, 1883	The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
May 19, 1883	Buffalo Bill's 1st Buffalo Bill's Wild West opens in Omaha, Nebraska.
May 20, 1883	Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
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 stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
June 5, 1883	The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
June 16, 1883	The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
July 10, 1883	War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
July 28, 1883	A moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 4.3–5.2 strikes the Italian island of Ischia, killing over 2,300 people.
August 12, 1883	The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
August 17, 1883	The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
August 21, 1883	An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
August 25, 1883	France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
August 26, 1883	The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
August 27, 1883	Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
September 8, 1883	The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
October 4, 1883	First run of the Orient Express.
October 4, 1883	First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
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.
October 22, 1883	The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
November 18, 1883	American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
December 16, 1883	Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
December 21, 1883	The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.