Apr 13 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism

Apr 12 The birth of Imogen Cunningham, American photographer

Apr 16 Paul Kruger becomes the first President of South Africa

Apr 01 The birth of Lon Chaney, American actor

Apr 03 State Premier Thomas McIlwraith claims British New Guinea as a Queensland possession; the claim was later disallowed by Britain.

Nov 18 Standard time zones established by railroads in US and Canada

Nov 03 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)

Sep 24 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky

Sep 08 Northern Pacific RR's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont

Sep 22 The Grand Trunk Railway acquires the 452 mile Midland Railway.

Jun 09 First commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)

Dec 03 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes

Dec 25 The birth of Maurice Utrillo, French painter

Dec 09 New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)

Dec 20 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls

Dec 03 The first coed higher education institution in the U.S., Oberlin College, begins classes in Ohio.

Aug 29 Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hrs after the explosion

Aug 10 First train reaches Calgary.

Aug 27 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons

Aug 26 Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000

Aug 29 Thomas Ahearn, head of the Ottawa Street Railway Company, presides over a demonstration of his pioneering electric stove at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa. This is believed to be the world's very first dinner cooked on an all-electric stove.

Aug 19 The birth of Gabrielle (aka Coco) Chanel, French designer

Aug 27 The volcano Krakatoa erupts and the resulting explosion is heard 2200 miles away in Australia.

Aug 26 The Indonesian island of Krakatoa explodes, spewing volcanic ash and debris 50 miles into the air and killing 36,000 people many from tidal waves over 100 feet high.

Oct 22 Original Metropolitan Opera House in New York grand opening (Faust)

Oct 15 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

Oct 06 The Orient Express travells from Paris to Istanbul in almost 78 hours, on its maiden run

Oct 04 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail

Oct 20 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile

Oct 03 The Holyhead was a steamer owned by the London and North Western Railway which rammed the barque Alhambra amidships in the Irish Sea between Dublin and Holyhead in clear weather. The Holyhead's general cargo included 300 pigs, and 17 horses. The Alhambra was carrying coal as ballast and was almost cut in two and sank in a few minutes. The Holyhead sank shortly afterwards. The loss of life from the Holyhead totalled 13, including the Captain, C.W.Hicks, and his daughter. Loss of life on the Alhambra not known, but there was a crew of 25.

Oct 15 US Supreme Court Opposes Civil Rights by a narrow decision, which would forbid racial discrimination

Oct 22 First NY Horse Show held in Madison Square Gardens

Jul 04 Buffalo Bill Cody presents first wild west show, North Platte, Nebr

Jul 29 The birth of Benito Mussolini, Italian leader

Jul 28 Shocks triggered by the volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000

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