1883

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.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1850s  1860s  1870s  – 1880s –  1890s  1900s  1910s
Years:	1880 1881 1882 – 1883 – 1884 1885 1886

1883 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1883 MDCCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2636
Armenian calendar	1332 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6633
Bahá'í calendar	39–40
Balinese saka calendar	1804–1805
Bengali calendar	1290
Berber calendar	2833
British Regnal year	46 Vict. 1 – 47 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2427
Burmese calendar	1245
Byzantine calendar	7391–7392
Chinese calendar	壬午年 (Water Horse) 4579 or 4519     — to — 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4580 or 4520
Coptic calendar	1599–1600
Discordian calendar	3049
Ethiopian calendar	1875–1876
Hebrew calendar	5643–5644
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1939–1940
- Shaka Samvat	1804–1805
- Kali Yuga	4983–4984
Holocene calendar	11883
Igbo calendar	883–884
Iranian calendar	1261–1262
Islamic calendar	1300–1301
Japanese calendar	Meiji 16 (明治１６年)
Javanese calendar	1812–1813
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4216
Minguo calendar	29 before ROC 民前29年
Nanakshahi calendar	415
Thai solar calendar	2425–2426
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Water-Horse) 2009 or 1628 or 856     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Water-Sheep) 2010 or 1629 or 857

Events

• May 24 – Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic.

Births

• February 7 – Eubie Blake, American musician and composer
• April 5 - Walter Huston, Canadian actor (d. 1950)
• April 7 – Gino Severini Italian painter (d. 1966)
• April 15 – Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• July 29 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator

Deaths

• March 14 – Karl Marx, German philosopher
• August 23 – Sarah Yorke Jackson, American First Lady

New books

• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi