In 1883, Greece's postal service reduced its international letter rates to 25 and 50 lepta ( for basic and registered letters respectively ).

The basic Boston water distribution system opened in 1848, and the wastewater collection system in 1883.

In 1883, Lester Frank Ward published the two-volume Dynamic Sociology and formalized the basic tenets of social liberalism while at the same time attacking the laissez-faire policies advocated by Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner.

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.

By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

The most infamous of all was launched by the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 ; ;

and after 1883, was professor of astronomy at Brown University.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

In February 1883, just before the disputed Fourth Test, a velvet bag made by Mrs Ann Fletcher, the daughter of Joseph Hines Clarke and Marion Wright, both of Dublin, was given to Bligh to contain the urn.

The first was opened in 1883 in Dunfermline.

Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.

A Theatre and Concert Hall was constructed in 1883, which was renovated and expanded in 1995 – 96.

This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks ' declining health, but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management, and it was continued from March 1884 as the Annals of Mathematics.

The play was first seen in America when, during 1883, in Louisville, Kentucky, Helena Modjeska acted Nora.

In 1883 the military was reorganized in four infantry brigades ( in Sofia, Pleven, Ruse and Shumen ) and one cavalry brigade.

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

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.

It was based on a patent of 1883 by James Cleminson, and was once popular on narrow-gauge rolling stock, e. g. on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways.

The university was founded in 1927 by evangelist Bob Jones, Sr. ( 1883 – 1968 ).

This was inaugurated by Montalembert, but its literary advocates were chiefly Dom Gueranger, a learned Benedictine monk, abbot of Solesmes, and Louis François Veuillot ( 1813 – 1883 ) of the Univers ; and it succeeded in suppressing them everywhere, the last diocese to surrender being Orleans in 1875.

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

This was first suggested by Mereschkowsky in 1905 after an observation by Schimper in 1883 that chloroplasts closely resemble cyanobacteria.

In 1883 Darmstadt University of Technology and Cornell University introduced the world's first courses of study in electrical engineering, and in 1885 the University College London founded the first chair of electrical engineering in the United Kingdom.

Though the term nihilism was first popularized by the novelist Ivan Turgenev ( 1818 – 1883 ) in his novel Fathers and Sons, </ i > it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ( 1743 – 1819 ).

Regulations were finally introduced in 1883, which replaced the baskets with hoops of a fixed size.

In 1881, a currency reform introduced a bimetallic standard, which went into effect in July 1883.

In 1883, years of unaccompanied study ended when Binet was introduced to Charles Fere, who introduced him to Jean-Martin Charcot, the director of a clinic called La Salpêtrière, Paris.

In the English-speaking world, he was introduced through the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám which are rather free-wheeling English translations by Edward FitzGerald ( 1809 – 1883 ).

The dominant species in the lake is the common carp, introduced in 1883 as an alternative to the over harvested native fish.

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Mongooses were introduced to Hawaii in 1883, and have had a significant negative effect on native species.

Gas street lighting was introduced in 1883.

After Marx's death in 1883, Friedrich Engels introduced, from manuscripts and the first volume ; Volume II: The circulation process of capital in 1885 ; and Volume III: The overall process of capitalist production in 1894.

In 1881 a regional market was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in 1883 introduced futures for the first time.

In 1883, points were introduced to football, and a touchdown counted as four points.

The first popular coon song was " New Coon in Town ", introduced in 1883, and was followed by a wave of coon shouters such as Ernest Hogan and May Irwin.

In 1881, a currency reform in Argentina introduced a bimetallic standard, which went into effect in July 1883.

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In 1883, Frenchman Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of identification that was named after him.

* Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883 ( sometimes called the " Reform Act of 1883 "), which introduced campaign spending limits

In 1882 the fairgrounds became the first to be lit by electricity, and Torontonian J. J. Wright introduced the electric railway there in 1883.

He introduced a women's column by his wife, Louise Knapp Curtis, and it proved so popular that in 1883, he decided to publish it as a separate monthly supplement, Ladies Journal and Practical Housekeeper, edited by Louise Curtis.

She was the first MP to be disqualified from membership of the House of Commons for that offence since it was introduced by the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883.