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Because of anti-monopoly laws, standard Oil is organized as a trust. -
Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam. -
The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polgamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act. -
American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph. Was one of America's most famous criminals, shot to death by fellow gang member Robert Ford. Betrayed James for reward money. -
US Congress ceases Chinese immigration. -
US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration -
The battle of Boschberg takes place in South Africa as part of the Mapoch War. -
Pendleton Act creates the basis of the US Civil Service system. United States federal law passed the 47th United States Congress and signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur -
French Lt-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger. -
Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law. -
Battle of Bamako: French assault on Fabulous arm forces attack. -
48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes. -
The Fabian Society is founded in London as an offshoot of society, founded a year earlier called The Fellowship of the New Life, which had been a forebear of the British Ethical and humanist movements. -
British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II. -
Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women, it made educational history as the first state-supported college for women in America. -
Anti-Monopoly party forms in the US, by former congressman Ignatius L. Donnelly. Founded as a national political party in 1884 at its convention in Chicago. -
John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair -
Statue of Liberty presented the US in Paris. -
US Congress accept the 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act. -
The East Cleveland Street Railway Company begins the first U.S. commercial electric streetcar line in Cleveland, Ohio, on the Bentley-Knight system. -
Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa). Germany formally proclaimed protection over Franz Adolf Eduard Luderit'z's (1834-1886) economic endeavor at the Bay of Angra Pequena. -
Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. -
King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession. -
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon and Togoland. -
William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. -
Yellow River or Huang He Floods in China, killed between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. -
The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. for "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge". -
The Convention of Constantinople signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. -
Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris opens with the recently completed Eiffel Tower serving as the entrance arch. -
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II. -
At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the 1st person to be executed by electric chair. -
French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed. -
Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station - it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people. -
New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote. -
Japanese scientist Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. -
Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia). -
The Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95). -
China cedes Taiwan to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonoseki. -
Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek in Yukon, Canada by George Carmack. -
M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in the US (Utah). -
Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army.
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