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| | Oils, watercolours and drawings by the Calcutta Art School( a commercial enterprise run by ex students) were shown and given medals, copies of Ajanta frescoes by students of the Bombay art school got medals. | | Oils, watercolours and drawings by the Calcutta Art School( a commercial enterprise run by ex students) were shown and given medals, copies of Ajanta frescoes by students of the Bombay art school got medals. |
| | There was an educational section demonstrating the progress oof teaching in art schools in India. | | There was an educational section demonstrating the progress oof teaching in art schools in India. |
| − | Calcutta Art Studio lithographs and Poona Chitrashala Press oleographs were also praised for the 'perfect marriage' between Western and Indian methods. | + | Calcutta Art Studio lithographs and Poona Chitrashala Press oleographs were also praised for the 'perfect marriage' between Western and Indian methods. |
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| − | '''1883''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCLXXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] (see link for calendar).
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| − | ==Events==
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| − | * [[January 10]] - A fire at the [[Newhall Hotel]] in [[Milwaukee]] kills 71
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| − | * [[January 16]] - The [[Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]], establishing the [[United States]] [[Civil service]], is passed
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| − | * [[January 19]] - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service ([[Roselle, New Jersey]]) It was built by [[Thomas Edison]].
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| − | * [[February 16]] - ''[[Ladies Home Journal]]'' is published for the first time.
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| − | * [[February 23]] - [[Alabama]] becomes the first [[U.S. state]] to enact an [[antitrust law]].
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| − | * [[February 28]] - The first [[vaudeville]] theater is opened, in [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
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| − | * [[March]] - An Australian Catholic school, [[Star of the Sea College]] is founded in [[Elsternwick, Victoria]] (now known as [[Gardenstown, Victoria|Gardenstown]]) by the [[Ireland|Irish]] [[Presentation Sisters]].
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| − | * [[May 24]] - [[Brooklyn Bridge]] is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
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| − | * [[May 30]] - In [[New York City]], a rumor that the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] was going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.
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| − | * [[June 30]] - First appearance of ''[[The Black Arrow]]'' by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] as a serial in ''Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature''. Stevenson would complete the novel at the end of summer in France.
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| − | * [[July 3]] - ''[[SS Daphne]]'' disaster in [[Glasgow]] leaves 124 dead.
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| − | * [[July 4]] - Worlds first [[rodeo]] held in [[Pecos, TX]].
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| − | * [[July 22]] – [[Zulu]] king [[Cetshwayo]] barely escapes rebel attack with his life.
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| − | * [[August]] - [[King William's College]] is opened on the [[Isle of Man]].
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| − | * [[August 12]] - The last [[quagga]] dies at the [[Artis Magistra zoo]] in [[Amsterdam]].
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| − | * [[August 26]] - [[August 28|28]] - [[Krakatau]] [[volcano]] eruption (local time)- 163 villages destroyed, 36380 dead.
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| − | * [[September 15]] - The [[Bombay Natural History Society]] is founded.
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| − | * [[September 29]] - A consortium of flour mill operators in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] form the [[Soo Line|Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railway]] as a means to get their product to the [[Great Lakes]] ports but avoid the high tariffs of [[Chicago, Illinois]].
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| − | * [[October 1]] - [[Sydney Boys High School]] is founded in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. It is the first boys public school in Australia.
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| − | * [[October 4]] - The [[Boys' Brigade]] is founded in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]]. It is the first Uniformed Youth Organisation in existence.
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| − | * [[October 4]] - [[Orient Express]] begins operation.
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| − | * [[October 15]] - The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] declares part of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1875]] to be unconstitutional since it allowed individuals and corporations to discriminate based on [[race]].
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| − | * [[October 20]] - [[Peru]] and [[Chile]] signed the [[Treaty of Ancón]], by which the [[Tarapacá]] province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the [[War of the Pacific]].
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| − | * [[October 30]] - Two [[Clan na Gael]] [[dynamite]] bombs explode in the [[London underground]], injuring several people. Next day [[Home Secretary]] [[Vernon Harcourt]] drafts 300 policemen to guard the underground and introduces the [[Explosives Bill]]. Public continues as before.
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| − | * [[November 1]] - [[Amsterdam]]: The first international colonial and export exhibition closed having had over 1 million visitors.
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| − | * [[November 3]] - [[American Old West]]: Self-described "[[Charles Bolles|Black Bart]] the Po-8" gets away with his last [[stagecoach]] robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
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| − | * [[November 18]] - [[United States|US]] and [[Canada|Canadian]] [[railroad]]s institute five standard continental [[time zone]]s, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
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| − | * [[November 28]] - [[Whitman College]] is chartered as a four-year college in [[Walla Walla, Washington]].
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| − | * [[Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch]] ([[Germany|German]].[[bacteriologist]]) discovers the [[cholera]] [[bacillus]].
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| − | * [[Antonio Gaudi]] begins to build [[Sagrada Familia]] cathedral.
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| − | * [[Fabian Society]] founded.
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| − | * [[University of Texas at Austin]] is founded.
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| − | * [[Houghton College]] is founded.
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | ===January-June===
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| − | *[[January 1]] - [[Ichirō Hatoyama]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[January 3]] - [[Clement Attlee]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[January 6]] - [[Khalil Gibran]], Lebanese poet, painter, and novelist (d. [[1931]])
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| − | *[[January 10]] - [[Francis X. Bushman]], American actor (d. [[1966]])
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| − | *[[January 10]] - [[Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi]], Russian writer (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[January 20]] - [[Bertram Ramsay]], British admiral (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[January 21]] - [[Olav Aukrust]], Norwegian poet (d. [[1929]])
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| − | *[[February 7]] - [[Eubie Blake]], American musician and composer (d. [[1983]])
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| − | *[[February 15]] - [[Sax Rohmer]], English author (d. [[1959]])
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| − | *[[February 22]] - [[Marguerite Clark]], American silent film actress (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[February 23]] - [[Karl Jaspers]], German philosopher (d. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[February 23]] - [[Victor Fleming]], American film director (d. [[1949]])
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| − | *[[March 4]] - [[Sam Langford]], Canadian boxer (d. [[1956]])
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| − | *[[March 19]] - [[Walter Haworth]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1950]])
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| − | *[[March 19]] - [[Joseph Stilwell]], American soldier (d. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[April 1]] - [[Lon Chaney, Sr.]], American actor (d. [[1930]])
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| − | *[[April 11]] - [[Hozumi Shigeto]], Japanese author (d. [[1951]])
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| − | *[[April 15]] - [[Stanley Bruce]], eighth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1967]])
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| − | *[[April 30]] - [[Jaroslav Hašek]], Czech writer (d. [[1923]])
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| − | *[[May 1]] - [[Thomas J. Moore|Tom Moore]], Irish actor (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[May 18]] - [[Walter Gropius]], German architect (d. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[May 20]] - King [[Faisal I of Iraq]] (d. [[1933]])
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| − | *[[May 23]] - [[Douglas Fairbanks]], American actor (d. [[1939]])
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| − | *[[May 31]] - [[Lauri Kristian Relander]], [[President of Finland]] (d. [[1942]])
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| − | *[[June 5]] - [[John Maynard Keynes]], English economist (d. [[1946]])
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| − | *[[June 7]] - [[Sylvanus Morley|Sylvanus G. Morley]], American scholar and World War I spy (d. [[1948]])
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| − | *[[June 19]] - [[Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger]], German theologian (d. [[1883]])
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| − | *[[June 21]] - [[Lluís Companys i Jover]], President of Catalonia (d. [[1940]])
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| − | *[[June 24]] - [[Victor Franz Hess]], Austrian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1964]])
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| − | *[[June 28]] - [[Pierre Laval]], [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1945]])
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| − | ===July-December===
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| − | *[[July 3]] - [[Franz Kafka]], Austrian writer (d. [[1924]])
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| − | *[[July 4]] - [[Rube Goldberg]], American cartoonist (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[July 29]] - [[Porfirio Barba-Jacob]], Colombian writer (d. [[1942]])
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| − | *[[July 29]] - [[Benito Mussolini]], dictator of Italy (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[August 19]] - [[Elsie Ferguson]], American actress (d. [[1961]])
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| − | *[[August 23]] - [[Jesse Pennington]], English footballer (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[August 23]] - [[Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV]], American general (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[August 30]] - [[Theo van Doesburg]], Dutch artist, painter, architect, and poet (d. [[1931]])
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| − | *[[September 15]] - [[Esteban Terradas i Illa]], Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer (d. [[1950]])
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| − | *[[October 8]] - [[Otto Heinrich Warburg]], German physician and physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1970]])
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| − | *[[October 26]] - [[Paul Pilgrim]], American athlete (d. [[1958]])
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| − | *[[November 4]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[November 8]] - [[Arnold Bax]], English composer (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[November 11]] - [[Ernest Ansermet]], Swiss conductor (d. [[1969]])
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| − | *[[November 18]] - [[Carl Vinson]], U.S. Congressman (d. [[1981]])
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| − | *[[November 25]] - [[Harvey Spencer Lewis]], American Rosicrucian mystic (d. [[1939]])
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| − | *[[November 25]] - [[Merrill C. Meigs]], American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. [[1968]])
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| − | *[[December 3]] - [[Anton Webern]], Austrian composer (d. [[1945]])
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| − | *[[December 13]] - [[Belle da Costa Greene]], librarian, bibliographer, archivist (d. [[1950]])
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| − | *[[December 16]] ? [[Max Linder]], French actor (d. [[1925]])
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| − | *[[December 22]] - [[Edgard Varèse]], French composer (d. [[1965]])
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| − | *[[December 25]] - [[Maurice Utrillo]], French artist and illustrator (d. [[1955]])
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| − | *[[Alberto Gerchunoff]], Argentine writer (d. [[1949]])
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| − | *[[St. John Greer Ervine]], Northern Irish dramatist and author (d. [[1971]])
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| − | *[[T. F. O'Rahilly]], Irish academic (d. [[1953]])
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| − | *[[Lothrop Stoddard]], [[United States|American]] [[Eugenics|eugenicist]] and [[racist]] (d. [[1950]])
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| − | * [[January 10]] - [[Samuel Mudd]], American doctor to [[John Wilkes Booth]] (b. [[1833]])
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| − | * [[January 23]] - [[Gustave Doré]], French artist (b. [[1832]])
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| − | * [[January 24]] - [[Friedrich von Flotow]], German composer (b. [[1812]])
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Richard Wagner]], German composer (b. [[1813]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Napoleon Coste]], French guitarist and composer (b. [[1806]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Vasudeo Balwant Phadke]], [[India]]n revolutionary (b. [[1845]])
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| − | * [[March 14]] - [[Karl Marx]], German philosopher (b. [[1818]])
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| − | * [[April 30]] - [[Edouard Manet]], French painter (b. [[1832]])
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| − | * [[May 24]] - [[Abdel Kadir]], Algerian leader (b. [[1808]])
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| − | * [[May 26]] - [[Edward Sabine]], Irish astronomer (b. [[1788]])
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| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Edward Ord]], U.S. Army officer (b. [[1818]])
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| − | * [[September 3]] - [[Ivan Turgenev]], Russian writer (b. [[1818]])
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| − | * [[October 30]] - [[Robert Volkmann]], German composer (b. [[1815]])
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| − | * [[December 13]] - [[Victor de Laprade]], French poet and critic (b. [[1812]])
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