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Template:Year nav Template:C19YearInTopic Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1884 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates 3 Deaths

Events of 1884

January

• January 4 - The Fabian Society is founded in London.
• January 18 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the UK.

February

• February 1 - Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

March

• March 13 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).

April

• April 22 - Colchester earthquake, England; the UK's most destructive.

May

• May 1 - the first proclamation of eight-hour workday by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. May 1st, called May Day or Labour Day, is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.

June

• (none)

July

• July 5 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
• July 23 - the courier of July 23, 1884 recorded the first tennis tournaments held in the grounds of Shrubland Hall.

August

• August 5 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
• August 10 - A severe earthquake, magnitude 5.5, (intensity VII) occurs off the northeast Atlantic coast. The area affected extends from central Virginia to southern Maine, and west as far as Cleveland.

September

• (none)

October

• October - International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.
• October 6 - United States Naval War College established in Newport, Rhode Island.
• October 18 - University of Wales, Bangor (UK) founded.
• October 22 - The first woman receives a degree from an Irish university. The degree is granted by the Royal University of Ireland.

November

• November 1 - The Irish Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Thurles, Ireland.
• November 2 - Timişoara is the first town of Europe with streets illuminated by electric light.
• November 4 - U.S. presidential election: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
• November 15 - The Berlin Conference which regulated European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends February 26, 1885).
• November 25 - British surgeon John Dooglee makes the first successful removal of a brain tumor.

December

• December 1 - American Old West - Near Frisco, New Mexico (now Reserve, New Mexico), deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them).
• December 6 - Washington Monument was completed.
• December 16 - World Cotton Centennial World's Fair opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Undated

• Bechuanaland becomes British protectorate.
• Stefan-Boltzmann law reformulated by Ludwig Boltzmann.
• British Police officers go on armed patrol in London.
• Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• First ascent made of Castle Mountain by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.
• The water hyacinth is introduced in the U.S. and quickly becomes an invasive species.

Births

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January-February

• January 2 - Oscar Micheaux, American filmmaker and author (d. 1951)
• January 12 - Texas Guinan, American vaudeville performer (d. 1933)
• January 13 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and comedian (d. 1966)
• January 21 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)
• January 23 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (d. 1956)
• January 28 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1962)
• January 31 - Theodor Heuss, German politician and publicist (d. 1963)

• February 12 - Max Beckmann, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1950)
• February 12 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
• February 13 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American athlete and inventor (d. 1961)
• February 14 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
• February 16 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
• February 18 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
• February 22 - Abe Attell, American boxer (d. 1970)

March-April

• March 13 - Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
• March 17 - Alcide Nunez, American jazz musician (d. 1934)
• March 24 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
• March 25 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
• March 26 - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)

• April 4 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
• April 6 - Walter Huston, actor (d. 1950)
• April 12 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1951)

May-June

• May 1 - Henry Norwest, Canadian World War I sniper (d. 1918)
• May 8 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (d. 1972)
• May 10 - Olga Petrova, English-born actress (d. 1977)
• May 14 - Claudius Dornier, German aircraft designer (d. 1969)
• May 27 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
• May 28 - Edvard Beneš, Austrian politician (d. 1948)

July-August

• July 12 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
• July 15 - Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Thailand's First Prime Minister (d. 1948)
• July 18 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (d. 1979)
• July 23 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (d. 1950)

• August 8 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
• August 10 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
• August 23 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
• August 30 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

September-October

• September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
• September 24 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)

• October 11 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
• October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962)

November-December

• November 20 - Norman Thomas, American social reformer (d. 1968)
• December 3 - Walther Stampfli, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1965)
• December 30 - Tojo Hideki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)

Unknown dates

• M. Louise Gross, American politician and lobbyist (d. 1951)

Deaths

(See 1884 list of deaths by name: Category:1884 deaths.)

• January 6 - Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist (b. 1822)
• January 25 - Johann Gottfried Piefke, German conductor and composer (b. 1815)
• March 1 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
• March 21 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (b. 1819)
• April 4 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist (b. 1858)
• May 12 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
• May 13 - Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (b. 1809)
• June 25 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)

• July 1 - Allan Pinkerton, American detective (b. 1819)
• July 10 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
• November 16 - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (b. 1835)
• November 25 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)

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