In 1883, Shapira offered the so-called Shapira Strips, fragments of ancient parchment allegedly found near the Dead Sea, for sale to the British Museum, which exhibited two of the strips.

The tradition originated in 1883 when New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to ladies at a post-Derby party that was attended by Churchill Downs founder and president, Col. M. Lewis Clark.

In 1883, he presented his doctor's thesis on the subject of The centrifugal nerves of the heart.

He presented the first " Wild West " show in 1883, featuring a recreation of famous battles ( especially Custer's Last Stand ), expert marksmanship, and dramatic demonstrations of horsemanship by cowboys and Indians, as well as sure-shooting Annie Oakley.

" In 1883 Capocci presented a special showcase for his protégé: the first performance in Italy of the oratorio Christus am Ölberge by Beethoven, in which Moreschi sang the demanding coloratura role of the Seraph.

The Triangle Club archives begin in 1883 with a production of the Princeton College Dramatic Association ; during the next five years the Association presented a number of plays.

In November 1883, notice was given that a private bill was to be presented to Parliament for the construction of the City of London & Southwark Subway ( CL & SS ).

On 7 March 1883, Kjeldahl presented his method at the Danish Chemical Society.

In 1884, he wrote Paw Claudian, a burlesque of the 1883 costume ( Byzantine ) drama ' Claudian ' by Henry Herman and W. G. Wills, starring J. L. Toole, presented at Toole's Theatre.

in 1883, he presented a lecture on “ the origin of writing in India ” to the Royal Asiatic Society.

There is a distinction between " Marxism " and " what Marx believed "; for example, shortly before he died in 1883, Marx wrote a letter to the French workers ' leader Jules Guesde, and to his own son-in-law Paul Lafargue, accusing them of " revolutionary phrase-mongering " and of lack of faith in the working class.

Primarily on the basis that the Lambert Charter had not been respected, France invaded Madagascar in 1883 in what became known as the first Franco-Hova War.

Intrigued by what he had read about English public schools, in 1883, at the age of twenty, Fredy went to Rugby and to other English schools to see for himself.

Angry at the cancellation of the Lambert Charter and seeking to restore property stolen from French citizens, France invaded Madagascar in 1883 in what became known as the first Franco-Hova War ( Hova as a name referring to the Merina aristocrats ).

In 1883 Olmsted established what is considered to be the first full-time landscape architecture firm in Brookline, Massachusetts.

On 27 February 1883, Ouray County was split into San Miguel County and what is currently Ouray County.

The first visit to Casa Malpais by a professional anthropologist was in 1883, when Frank Cushing, an anthropologist living at Zuni, visited a site at " El Valle Redondo on the Colorado Chiquito ", and was impressed by what he termed " the fissure type pueblo " he found there.

In early History of Effingham County edited by William Henry Perrin in 1883, he wrote: " The name of Mound Township was bestowed upon it in consequence of what is known as the neighborhood of Blue Mound, a slight elevation of Section 8, which is nearly all a kind of mound, the apex being in the center of the section, and having an altitude of seventy-eight feet above the bed of the Vandalia Railroad, which passes near it.

Thomas Edison installed the first successful three-wire electric lighting system in July 1883 at what was then known as the City Hotel.

In 1883 he discovered what he thought was tin, but the samples proved to besilver and lead.

* Die konventionelle Lügen der Kulturmenschheit, in which he shows what he believes to be the essential falsity of some of the social, ethical and religious standards of modern civilization ( Conventional Lies of Society, 1883 )

He wrote, " That Life should be passing into the hands of new owners and directors is of the liveliest interest to the sole survivor of the little group that saw it born in January 1883 ... As for me, I wish it all good fortune ; grace, mercy and peace and usefulness to a distracted world that does not know which way to turn nor what will happen to it next.

However, by 1883, rice prices had fallen to about a third of what they had been previously.

In 1883, Dryer, with the permission of Moody, organized and headed what was known as the " May Institute ".

Washburn served as the first president from 1883 to 1889 of what was to become Soo Line Railroad.

Helen Nearing ( 1904 – 1995 ) and Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ) were well-known American back-to-the-landers who wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed " the good life ".

They were connected by a well-travelled path along what is now the Lake Washington Ship Canal ( 1883, 1916 ).

Before the completion of the Haight Street Cable Railroad in 1883, what is now the Haight-Ashbury was a collection of isolated farms and acres of sand dunes.

In 1883, John W. Sprague, the head of the new Pacific Division, drove the Golden Spike to mark the beginning of the railroad from what would become Kalama, Washington.

In 1883, Holub, along with his new wife and six guides, set out to do what no one had done before: explore the entire length of Africa from Cape Town all the way to Egypt.

Two drafts ( 1883 and 1885 ) of a program for the Russian Social Democrats were written by Plekhanov and published by the group, marking an important step to what would become the building of the Russian Social-Democratic Party.

After the death of Wagner in 1883, his second wife Cosima in continuing to propagate what she saw as her husband's views, was supported by a number of active anti-Semites, including Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Ludwig Schemann.

The BNCR purchased a share in the lease of the long standing and well thought of Antrim Arms hotel at Portrush and in 1883 formed a separate company to manage what was renamed the Northern Counties Hotel.

In 1883 Lamb published a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society applying Maxwell's equations to the problem of oscillatory current flow in spherical conductors, an early examination of what was later to be known as the skin effect.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

This axis is interrupted by a railway line and Bonn Hauptbahnhof, a building erected in 1883 / 84.

The Benedictine Confederation, which was established in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII in his brief Summum semper, is the international governing body of the order, headed by the Abbot Primate.

Historical materialism is a methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, first articulated by Karl Marx ( 1818 – 1883 ) as " the materialist conception of history ".

Lord Grimthorpe financed a £ 130, 000 renovation and rebuilding of the then dilapidated cathedral, which is most apparent in his generally poorly regarded Neo-Gothic rebuild of the west front ( 1880 – 1883 ).

* Édouard Manet ( who did not regard himself, nor is he generally considered, as an Impressionist, but who supported the Impressionists and was a great influence on them ), ( 1832 – 1883 )

* 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.

T. Hall Caine, in 1883 survey of the original critical response to Christabel and Kubla Khan, praised the poem and declared: " It must surely be allowed that the adverse criticism on ' Christabel ' and ' Kubla Khan ' which is here quoted is outside all tolerant treatment, whether of raillery or of banter.

* 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.

* 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

* 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.

* 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.

In June 1957, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by Samuel Glasstone was published containing a section entitled " Nuclear Bombs and the Weather " ( pages 69 – 71 ), which states: " The dust raised in severe volcanic eruptions, such as that at Krakatoa in 1883, is known to cause a noticeable reduction in the sunlight reaching the earth ...

* 1883 – Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific.

The Pacific fleet flagship is the cruiser BAP Almirante Grau ( CLM-81 ), named for the 19th-century Peruvian Admiral who fought in the War of the Pacific ( 1879 – 1883 ).

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir 146. jpg | Dance at Bougival, 1882 – 1883, ( woman at left is painter Suzanne Valadon ), Boston Museum of Fine Arts

1883 was also the year the first rugby sevens tournament at Melrose, the Melrose Sevens, which is still held annually.

The modern version is based on the game reversi that was invented in 1883 by either of two Englishmen ( each calling the other a fraud ), Lewis Waterman or John W. Mollett ( or perhaps earlier by someone else entirely ), and gained considerable popularity in England at the end of the 19th century.

The Six Nations is the successor to the Home Nations Championship ( 1883 – 1909 and 1932 – 39 ) and the Five Nations Championship ( 1910 – 31 and 1947 – 99 ).

The current team is one of several professional clubs that have existed in Toledo since 1883.

He cites the Burt Affair, about the allegedly fraudulent, oft-cited twin studies, by Cyril Burt ( 1883 – 1971 ), wherein he claimed that human intelligence is highly heritabile.