Page 3: Historical Events In 1883

Mar 01   In this year, Nicholas Flood Davin publishes the inaugural issue of the Regina Leader   

Mar 01   Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale).   

Mar 03   Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy   

Mar 03   Congress authorizes the inaugural steel vessels in US navy   

Mar 04   Alexander H Stephens, VP Confederate States, dies at 71.   

Mar 04   John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi   

Mar 07   Carl Deis, composer.   

Mar 08   Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer   

Mar 09   Umberto Saba, writer   

Mar 12   Judge Jackson, composer   

Mar 12   Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies.   

Mar 13   Enrico Toselli, composer   

Mar 14   Juan Manen, composer   

Mar 14   Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64.   

Mar 15   Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55.   

Mar 19   Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes.   

Mar 19   Jan Matzeliger invents inaugural machine to manufacture entire shoes   

Mar 19   Josef Matthais Hauer, composer   

Mar 20   Colin Campbell, Falkirk Scot, actress (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys).   

Mar 20   Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property   

Mar 20   Unity treaty of Paris signed; protects industrial property   

Mar 21   Jules van Nuffel, composer   

Mar 23   Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria   

Mar 24   1st telephone call between NY and Chicago   

Mar 24   James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop   

Mar 24   The inaugural telephone call between New York and Chicago.   

Mar 27   Jan Kunc, composer.   

Mar 28   William H Harris, composer   

Mar 29   Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)   

Mar 30   Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman).   

Mar 31   1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit".   

Mar 31   Utrecht begins water pipe system   

Apr 01   Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor.   

Apr 01   Lon Chaney, American actor is born.   

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Jan 01   Federigo tozzi: Italian writer/journalist (la torre, tre croci)   

Jan 01   [hei]ko e arnoldi: Dutch actor (3 drops of water)/theater director   

Jan 03   Clement richard attlee: (l) british pm (1945-51)   

Jan 04   Johanna westerdijk: Botanist/neth 1st female prof (utrecht, 1917-52)   

Jan 04   Max f eastman: Us, critic/essayist (masses)   

Jan 04   Max eastman: American writer    

Jan 06   Khalil gibran: Lebanon, mystic poet (the prophet, broken wings)   

Jan 07   Andrew browne: Irish/british admiral (ww ii)   

Jan 04   Nicolas ledesma: Composer,   

Jan 05   Charles tompson: First australian published poet (b. 1806)   

Jan 10   Dr samuel a. mudd: American medical doctor (b. 1833)   

Jan 21   Jacopo tomadini: Composer,    

Jan 23   Gustave doré: French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)   

Jan 24   Friedrich von flotow: German baron/composer,   

Feb 01   Pavel melnikov: Russian historian/author,   

Feb 13   Pavel melnikov: [petsjerski], russian historian,