1884

1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1884, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1884 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1884
MDCCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2637
Armenian calendar1333
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԳ
Assyrian calendar6634
Baháʼí calendar40–41
Balinese saka calendar1805–1806
Bengali calendar1291
Berber calendar2834
British Regnal year47 Vict. 1  48 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2428
Burmese calendar1246
Byzantine calendar7392–7393
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4580 or 4520
     to 
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4581 or 4521
Coptic calendar1600–1601
Discordian calendar3050
Ethiopian calendar1876–1877
Hebrew calendar5644–5645
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1940–1941
 - Shaka Samvat1805–1806
 - Kali Yuga4984–4985
Holocene calendar11884
Igbo calendar884–885
Iranian calendar1262–1263
Islamic calendar1301–1302
Japanese calendarMeiji 17
(明治17年)
Javanese calendar1813–1814
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4217
Minguo calendar28 before ROC
民前28年
Nanakshahi calendar416
Thai solar calendar2426–2427
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
2010 or 1629 or 857
     to 
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
2011 or 1630 or 858
March 13: Battle of Khartoum.

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 20 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, denouncing Freemasonry and certain liberal beliefs which he considers to be associated with it.
  • April 22
    • A German protectorate is established over South-West Africa.
    • The Colchester earthquake, England, the UK's most destructive, occurs.
  • May 1 The eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. This date, called May Day or Labour Day, becomes a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.
  • May 16
    • Angelo Moriondo of Turin is granted a patent for an espresso machine.[3]
    • Sweden's Finance Minister Robert Themptander becomes his country's Prime Minister (1884–88).
  • June 4 (N.S.) (May 23 O.S.) The future flag of Estonia is consecrated, as the flag of the Estonian Students' Society.
  • June 13 LaMarcus Adna Thompson opens the "Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway" at Coney Island, New York City.
  • June 28 The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights is founded.

JulySeptember

  • July 1 First International Forestry Exhibition opens in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4]
  • July 3 The Dow Jones Transportation Average, consisting of eleven transportation-related companies (nine railroads and two non-rail companies, Western Union and Pacific Mail), is created. The index is the oldest stock index still in use.
  • July 5 Germany takes possession of Togoland.
  • July 7 Nagasaki Shipyard, as predecessor of an aircraft and shipbuilding manufacturing brand in Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was founded in Kyushu Island.[5]
  • July 14 German administration is established in Cameroon.
  • July 23 Today's Courier records the first tennis tournaments held on the grounds of Shrubland Hall, Leamington Spa, England.
  • August 5 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island, in New York Harbor.
  • August 10 An earthquake measuring 5.5 Mfa affects a very large portion of the eastern United States. The shock has a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Chimneys are toppled in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Property damage is severe in Jamaica, Queens and Amityville, New York.[6]
  • August 22 The Sino-French War (for control of Tonkin) breaks out (continues to April 1885).
  • August 23 Sino-French War Battle of Fuzhou: French Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron virtually destroys China's Fujian Fleet.
  • September 5 Staten Island Academy is founded.
  • September 15 The invention of local anesthesia by Karl Koller is made public, at a medical congress in Heidelberg, Germany.
  • September 2324 On the night of 23 to 24 September steamship Arctique runs aground near Cape Virgenes leading to the discovery of nearby placer gold and beginning the Tierra del Fuego gold rush.[7]

OctoberDecember

October 6: US Naval War College founded.

Date unknown

  • The first Christian missionary arrives in Korea.
  • Police training schools are established in every prefecture in Japan.
  • The Yellow Crane Tower last burns in Wuhan.
  • Parliamentarism is introduced in Norway.
  • Scottish Plymouth Brethren missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot identifies the source of the Zambezi River, near Kalene Hill.
  • The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain in the Canadian Rockies, by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.
  • The Stefan–Boltzmann law is reformulated by Ludwig Boltzmann.
  • Mexican General Manuel Mondragón creates the Mondragón rifle, the world's first automatic rifle.
  • The water hyacinth is introduced in the United States, and quickly becomes an invasive species.
  • An economic depression hits the United States.
  • The Fredrika Bremer Association is founded in Sweden.
  • Thomas Parker built a practical production electric car in Wolverhampton using his own specially designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries.

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Date unknown

January

Rickard Sandler
Pedro Pablo Ramírez
  • January 1
    • Papa Celestin, American jazz bandleader, singer, cornetist, and trumpeter (d. 1954)
    • Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese naval officer, engineer, and politician, founder of the Nakajima Aircraft Company (d. 1949)
    • Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Greek politician, 2-time prime minister of Greece (d. 1970)
  • January 2 Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973)
  • January 4 Gyosaku Morozumi, Japanese general (d. 1963)
  • January 12
    • Texas Guinan, American vaudeville performer (d. 1933)
    • Charles Armijo Woodruff, 11th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1945)
  • January 13 Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer, comedian (d. 1966)
  • January 20 Charles Whittlesey, United States Army officer, commander of the Lost Battalion in World War I (d. 1921)
  • January 21 Roger Nash Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
  • January 23 Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956)
  • January 24 Thomas Blamey, Australian field marshal (d. 1951)
  • January 26
    • Gheorghe Avramescu, Romanian general (d. 1945)
    • Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist (d. 1960)
  • January 28 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962)
  • January 29 Rickard Sandler, 20th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1964)
  • January 30
  • January 31 Theodor Heuss, German politician, publicist (d. 1963)

February

March

April

May

Claude Dornier

June

Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland
Gaston Bachelard

July

Rafael Arévalo Martínez
  • July 2 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)
  • July 4
    • Gustaf Malmström, Swedish wrestler (d. 1970)
    • Pauline Carton, French actress (d. 1974)
  • July 7 J. Roy Hunt, American motion picture cameraman and cinematographer (d. 1972)
  • July 11 Howard Estabrook, American actor, film director and producer, and screenwriter (d. 1978)
  • July 12
  • July 15 Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Thailand's first Prime Minister (d. 1948)
  • July 17 Prince George Bagration (d. 1957)
  • July 18
    • Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank, secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
    • Alexandra Tolstaya, Russian activist (d. 1979)
  • July 19 Maurice Nicoll, British psychiatrist (d. 1953)
  • July 27 Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (d. 1951)
  • July 23 Emil Jannings, Swiss-born German actor (d. 1950)
  • July 25 Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer (d. 1975)
  • July 27 Kathleen Howard, Canadian/American opera singer, character actress (d. 1956)

August

Rómulo Gallegos
John S. McCain Sr.

September

Billie Burke

October

November

  • November 4 Harry Ferguson, Irish engineer, inventor (d. 1960)
  • November 20
    • Loyal Blaine Aldrich, American astronomer (d. 1965)
    • Norman Thomas, American social reformer (d. 1968)
  • November 22 Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (d. 1953)
  • November 24 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)

December

Petru Groza

Date unknown

  • Alimuddin Ahmad, Bengali revolutionary and activist (d. 1920) [11]
  • M. Louise Gross, American politician, lobbyist (d. 1951)
  • Wyncie King, American illustrator (d. 1961)
  • Catherine Schleimer-Kill, Luxemburgian women's rights activist (d. 1973)
  • Ayoub Tabet, 6th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1947)

Deaths

JanuaryJune

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

JulyDecember

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Leona Florentino

References

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  2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  3. "Patent #33/256". Bollettino delle Privative Industriali del Regno d'Italia. 2nd Series. 15: 635–655. 1884.
  4. "The Forestry Exhibition". The Morning Post. London. July 2, 1884. p. 3.
  5. ja:三菱重工長崎造船所#沿革 (Japanese language edition) Retrieved on June 28, 2020.
  6. Stover, C.W.; Coffman, J.L., Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, pp. 314–316
  7. Martinic Beros, Mateo (2003). "La minería aurífera en la región austral americana (1869-1950)". Historia (in Spanish). 36. doi:10.4067/S0717-71942003003600009 (inactive July 31, 2022).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2022 (link)
  8. Treptow, Kurt W. (1996). A History of Romania. Iasi: Center for Romania Studies. p. 590. ISBN 978-0-88033-345-0.
  9. "Porfirio Díaz". Busca Biografias (in Spanish). Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  10. Jessup, John E. (1998). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-313-28112-9.
  11. Sengupta, Subodha (November 2013). Bose, Anjali (ed.). সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান (in Bengali). Vol. 1. Kolkata: Sahitya Samsad. p. 80. ISBN 978-81-7955-135-6.

Further reading and year books

  • 1884 Annual Cyclopedia (1885) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1884; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 855pp
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