1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1883rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 883rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1883, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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1883 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1883
MDCCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita2636
Armenian calendar1332
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԲ
Assyrian calendar6633
Baháʼí calendar39–40
Balinese saka calendar1804–1805
Bengali calendar1290
Berber calendar2833
British Regnal year46 Vict. 1  47 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2427
Burmese calendar1245
Byzantine calendar7391–7392
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
4580 or 4373
     to 
癸未年 (Water Goat)
4581 or 4374
Coptic calendar1599–1600
Discordian calendar3049
Ethiopian calendar1875–1876
Hebrew calendar5643–5644
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1939–1940
 - Shaka Samvat1804–1805
 - Kali Yuga4983–4984
Holocene calendar11883
Igbo calendar883–884
Iranian calendar1261–1262
Islamic calendar1300–1301
Japanese calendarMeiji 16
(明治16年)
Javanese calendar1812–1813
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4216
Minguo calendar29 before ROC
民前29年
Nanakshahi calendar415
Thai solar calendar2425–2426
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
2009 or 1628 or 856
     to 
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
2010 or 1629 or 857
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An 1888 lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

Events

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February 16: Ladies Home Journal begins (photo 1906).

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

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May 24: Brooklyn Bridge is opened.

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

Date unknown

Births

JanuaryFebruary

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Ichirō Hatoyama
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Clement Attlee
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Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Karl Jaspers

MarchApril

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Maude Fealy
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Stanley Bruce

MayJune

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Eleazar López Contreras
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José Ortega y Gasset
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Celâl Bayar
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Walter Gropius
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Eurico Gaspar Dutra
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Victor Franz Hess
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Pierre Laval

JulyAugust

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Franz Kafka
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Max Fleischer
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Benito Mussolini
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Coco Chanel

SeptemberOctober

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Mel Sheppard
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Otto Heinrich Warburg

NovemberDecember

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Diego Martínez Barrio

Date unknown

Deaths

JanuaryJune

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Richard Wagner
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Keʻelikōlani
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Karl Marx
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Édouard Manet

JulyDecember

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Carl Wilhelm Siemens

Dates unknown

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Margaret Agnes Bunn

References

Further reading and year books

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