1884

1884
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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1881 1882 1883 - 1884 - 1885 1886 1887

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Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Sports - Rail Transport
Countries: Australia - Canada - France - Germany - Ireland - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - South Africa - UK - USA
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1884

January 4 - The Fabian Society is founded in London.
January 5 - Princess Ida premieres at the Savoy Theatre.
January 18 - Dr William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist (Jesus Christ) Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the U.K.
February 1 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
February 7 - The Diocese of Madrid-Alcalá is founded.
March 13 - The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).

April 22 - 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. May 1st, called May Day or Labour Day, is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.
June 4 - The Estonian flag is consecrated as the flag of the Estonian Students Society.

July 5 - Germany takes possession of 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 - 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 5 - Staten Island Academy is founded.

October 6: US Naval War College founded.

October - International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. fixes the Greenwich meridian as the world's prime meridian.
October 6 - The United States Naval War College is established in Newport, Rhode Island.
October 18 - The University of Wales, Bangor (UK) is founded.
October 22 - The first woman receives a degree from the Royal University of Ireland.
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 - United States presidential election, 1884: 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 regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends February 26, 1885).
December 1 - American Old West: Near Frisco, 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 - The Washington Monument is completed.
December 16 - The World Cotton Centennial World's Fair opens in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Stefan-Boltzmann law is reformulated by Ludwig Boltzmann.
Mexican General Manuel Mondragón creates the Mondragón Rifle the worlds first automatic rifle.
Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.
The water hyacinth is introduced in the U.S. and quickly becomes an invasive species.
Parliamentarism is introduced in Norway.
The Yellow Crane Tower last burns in Wuhan.
The Derby County Football Club is formed.
The Leicester City Football Club is formed.
The Third Reform Act gives the vote to almost every adult male in England.
1884-1885 - France conquers Vietnam.
Police training schools are established in every prefecture in Japan.
Reformers in Korea who admire the Meiji Restoration in Japan stage a coup with Japan's help. China intervens to rescue the king and help suppress the rebels. Afterward both China and Japan agree to withdraw their troops and military advisers.
The first Christian missionary arrives in Korea.
Depression (economics) in the USA.