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1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar).
Events
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 1 - ion one of the Oxford English Dictionary March 13 - The siege of Khartoum , Sudan begins (ends on January 26 , 1885 ).April 22 - Colchester earthquake, England ; the UK 's most destructive.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 Labour Day July 5 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon .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 .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.November 1 - The Irish Gaelic Athletic Association is founded in Thurles, Ireland .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 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 .Bechuanaland becomes British protectorate .Stefan-Boltzmann law reformulated by Ludwig Boltzmann .British Police officers go on armed patrol in London .
Environmental change
Births
January-March
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 comedienne (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 (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 1 - Isaac Todhunter , English mathematician (b. 1820 )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-December
April 4 - Isoroku Yamamoto , naval commander (d. 1943 )April 6 - Walter Huston , Academy Award inning actor (d. 1950 )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 silent film and stage 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 12 - Amedeo Modigliani , Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920 )July 23 - Emil Jannings , Swiss actor (d. 1950 )August 23 - Will Cuppy , American humorist (d. 1949 )August 30 - Theodor Svedberg , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes , American composer (d. 1920 )October 11 - Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949 )October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt , human rights activist, First Lady of the United States (d. 1962 )November 19 - José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban chess player (d. 1942 )November 20 - Norman Thomas , American social reformer (d. 1968 )December 30 - Tojo Hideki , Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948 )
Deaths
January 6 - Gregor Mendel , Austrian geneticist (b. 1822 )January 25 - Johann Gottfried Piefke , German conductor and composer (b. 1815 )March 21 - Ezra Abbot , American Bible scholar (b. 1819 )April 4 - Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian artist (b. 1858 )May 12 - Bedrich 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 25 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , German chemist (b. 1818 )
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