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unusual facts about 1883


Wellington Church

The building was designed by the architect Thomas Lennox Watson and built in 1883-4 for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland ("U.P."), which joined with the Free Church of Scotland to become the United Free Church of Scotland in 1900.


Adolphe Danziger De Castro

In 1883 he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he first lived as a journalist and teacher in St. Louis and Vincennes (IN), before settling in San Francisco in November 1884, where he practiced as a dentist and free-lance journalist until 1900.

Angelo Ribossi

an oil canvas, depicting Filippo Maria Visconti con Beatrice di Tenda (exhibited in 1870 at Parma); La vigilia del Natale(exhibited in 1872 at Milan); Il cuoco mal pratico, L' Ammaliatrice, and Il vino del padrone (exhibited in 1880 at Turin); Cuoco mal pratico, Passatempo istruttivo, and Momento di buon umore (exhibited in 1881 at Milan); Momento opportuno (exhibited in 1883 at Milan); Il Babau and Prete artista (exhibited in 1886 at Milan).

Arved von Schultz

Arved Carl Ludwig von Schultz (born 14 November 1883 at Good Rinkuln in Talsen, now Latvia; died 13 December 1967 in Hilden at Düsseldorf) was a German geographer.

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad

The SP began building a branch from Mojave, California that same year, east to Needles, where the two met on August 9, 1883.

Benjamin Wood

Wood was elected as a Democrat to the 37th and 38th United States Congresses (March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1865.) He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) in 1866 and 1867 and elected to the 47th United States Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883)

Campobasso railway station

The station was opened on 5 August 1883, upon the inauguration of the Baranello–Campobasso section of the Termoli–Venafro railway and the Benevento–Campobasso railway.

Ceremonial ship launching

SS Daphne was a ship which sank moments after her launching at a shipyard in Govan, Glasgow,Scotland, on 3 July 1883.

Charles Hastings

Sir Charles Hastings Doyle (1804–1883), British military officer and Lieutenant Governor in Canada

Charles Underwood

Charles Underwood (1791 – 5 March 1883, Clifton, Bristol) was a builder in Cheltenham who moved to Bristol, where he became a neo-classical architect.

Château Malromé

In 1883, the Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec acquired the building, attracted by its proximity to Verdelais, a nearby shrine and place of pilgrimage.

Edward Baldwin Whitney

In 1883, with General Henry Lawrence Burnett, who was a member of that firm, he formed the firm of Burnett & Whitney.

Filadelfo Simi

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

First Presbyterian Church of Blissfield

In 1883, the building itself was moved slightly to its current position just north of U.S. Route 223 near the River Raisin.

Frederick Thrupp

Thrupp executed the monument to Lady Coleridge at Ottery St. Mary in Devon; the reredos representing the Last Supper in St. Clement's, York; and the monument to Hugh Nicholas Pearson in Sonning Church, Berkshire, in 1883.

Gaetano Perratone Armandi

In 1880, he exhibited at Turin Giorno che fu, and at the 1883 Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited a Veduta of Gressoney.

George Hoskins

George Gilbert Hoskins (1824–1893), Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1880–1883

Ignaty Krachkovsky

Ignaty Yulianovich Krachkovsky (Russian: Игна́тий Юлиа́нович Крачко́вский (4 (16) March 1883, Vilnius — 24 January 1951, Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet Arabist, academician of the Russian Academy of Science (since 1921; since 1925 Academy of Science of the USSR).

Jessie Scott

Jessie Ann Scott (1883–1959), New Zealand doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war

John Irwin

John N. Irwin (1847–1905), American politician, governor of Idaho Territory, 1883–1884, and Arizona Territory, 1890–1892

John Kendrick Bangs

He went to Columbia University from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines.

John P. Leedom

Leedom was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 4, 1883).

John R. Buck

Buck was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881—March 3, 1883) and to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885—March 3, 1887).

John Tyler Rich

Rich served in the Michigan Senate from January 1, 1881, until March 21, 1881, when he resigned, having been elected to the United States House of Representatives for the 47th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Omar D. Conger, serving from April 5, 1881, to March 3, 1883.

John Van Voorhis

Van Voorhis was elected as a Republican to the 46th and 47th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1883.

Jonathan H. Rowell

Rowell was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).

Kee Kim Swee

In 1883, at the age of 20 years old, as the courteous and respected Agent of the Company in Brunei, Kapitan Kee Kim Swee was appointed as Datuk Temenggung over the Chinese community by Sultan Abdul Momin.

Lasakau sea warriors

Ratu Pope Seniloli the Vunivalu of Bau (1883–1936), in his sworn statement at the Native Lands Commission in 1933 for the Village of Lasakau asserted, Ai tokatoka ka liu ko Nacokula. Sa bula eso na kena kawa.

Le droit d'aînesse

Falka, the English version of Le droit d'aînesse, with Leterrier and Vanloo's libretto translated and adapted by Henry Brougham Farnie, was first produced at the Comedy Theatre in London on 29 October 1883.

Marcus M. Drake

Upon the resignation of Grover Cleveland as mayor on November 20, 1882 to take the Governor's seat, the Common Council elected Drake to fill the vacancy until a special election could be held in early January 1883.

Maryland Route 195

The street itself was named for Samuel S. Carroll, the owner of the land around present day Takoma Junction prior to its purchase by Benjamin Franklin Gilbert in 1883 to create his planned suburb of Takoma Park.

Melton Constable Railway Works

The buildings and operations in the village of Melton Constable from 1883 to 1964 were vital to the village economy and indeed it is known that the village itself was created to house the employees who worked there.

Minuscule 3

Wordsworth, J., Old Latin biblical Texts, Nr. 1, Oxford 1883, pp.

Nordhagen

Olaf Nordhagen (1883–1925), Norwegian architect, engineer, and artist

Port Shepstone High School

The school officially opened on 13 February 1953 when the old Port Shepstone School (founded in 1883) grew too big and had to split into the Port Shepstone Primary School and High School.

Ripudaman Singh

Maharaja Ripudaman Singh (4 March 1883 – 12 December 1942), later known as Maharaja Gurcharan Singh and as Sardar Gurcharan Singh, was the Maharaja of Nabha from 1911 to 1928, when he was deposed by the British.

Saul Samuel

Between 1872 and 1880, Samuel served as Postmaster-General on three occasions under Premier, Henry Parkes, including the first (1872–1875), second (1877), and third (1878–1883) ministries.

Saul Solomon

He retired from public life completely in 1883 due to poor health and moved to Kilcreggan, Scotland in 1888.

Schaeffler Group

1883: Friedrich Fischer of Schweinfurt designs a machine to allow steel balls to be ground to an absolutely round state for the first time – and in large volumes.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He entered the foreign office in 1841, was British envoy at Dresden and Berne, and from 1883 to 1888 represented his country in Rome.

Sokuluk

According to historians, Sokuluk started its existence in the early 1880s, as a place of settlement of many of the Dungan people who moved to the Russian Empire from the Kulja (Yining) area between 1881 and 1883, after Russia agreed to withdraw its troops from Kulja pursuant to the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881).

Superior Drill Company

American Civil War Capt. Edward Lyon Buchwalter was one of the organizers of the Superior Drill Company and president of the same from 1883 to 1903.

Theo Marzials

Marzials later spent much of his time as a composer and in 1883 released Pan Pipes, which coupled his music with the work of Christina Rossetti and the illustrations of Walter Crane.

Thomas Wardlaw Taylor

From 1872 to 1883 he was Master of Chancery, and from 1883 to 1887 puisne judge of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.

Tranquilino Luna

Luna was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883).

Une semaine de bonté

A few of Ernst's sources were identified: these include illustrations from an 1883 novel by Jules Mary, Les damnées de Paris, and possibly a volume of works by Gustave Doré Ernst purchased in Milan.

Victor von Bruns

Victor von Bruns (August 9, 1812 – March 19, 1883) was a German surgeon born in Helmstedt.

Walter M. Jeffords, Sr.

(August 8, 1883 - September 28, 1960) was a successful Investment banker and owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who, in partnership with his wife's uncle, Samuel Riddle, purchased and operated Faraway Farm near Lexington Kentucky where they stood Man o' War.

William Miller Jenkins

Jenkins and his wife removed to Shelby County, Iowa, in 1880 where he was admitted to the bar in 1883.

William Scroggs

Sir JF Stephen, History of the Criminal Law of England (3 vols, London, 1883)


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