As the area turned to desert the water evaporated, leaving behind the abundance of evaporitic salts such as common sodium salts and borax, which were subsequently exploited during the modern history of the region, primarily 1883 to 1907.

In 1883, the French navy occupied the city to prevent British conquest of the area.

The railway had been completed across the prairies in 1883, though sections were still under construction north of Lake Superior, making it easier for the government to get troops into the area.

Several funiculars – locally called ascensores – provide public transport service between the central area and the neighbourhoods atop the surrounding hills, the first of which ( Ascensor Concepción, also known as Ascensor Turri ) opened in 1883 and is still in service.

The area was by and large unsettled until the JA Ranch of Charles Goodnight came in 1883, which added the Tule Ranch.

In 1883, the area of the former Wetmore County was reincorporated as present-day Jerauld County.

The completion of rail lines into the county in 1883 increased access to markets and encouraged wheat production in the area.

The railroad, which extended into the area in 1883, served as a catalyst to the cattle industry but later contributed to its decline.

Blackheath Cricket Club has been part of the sporting fabric of the area, joining forces with Blackheath Rugby Club in 1883 to purchase and develop the Rectory Field as a home ground in Charlton.

The original Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873 and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties.

) Lake City, just across the St. Francis River from the Buffalo Island area, was added as a second county seat in 1883.

On July 3, 1883, Heald paid one thousand dollars as a down payment on the area.

Then in 1883 a few miles south of the settlement, John H. Barham founded the first town in the area.

In 1883 a post office was established for this area but at that time the town was known as Albertson which was later changed to Roberts in 1885 and finally to Palo Cedro in 1893.

Two years later, much of the Ocala downtown area was destroyed by fire on Thanksgiving Day, 1883.

The city was established soon after the South Florida Railroad reached the area in 1883.

Loughman was settled shortly after the South Florida Railroad reached the area in 1883.

In 1883, commercial and residential lots were created and sold for $ 375 a piece ; and soon the sawing of lumber and clacking of hammers could be heard throughout the area.

Vincent van Gogh visited the area in the fall of 1883.

The first pioneers who came to this area of the Thirteen Towns in 1883, which is now Eden Township, were Ole Edevold Sr., O. Dunrud and Andreas Engebretson from Norway and John Erickson from Sweden.

In 1883, Willard E. Winner came to the area with plans to build a city north of Kansas City across the Missouri River, and connect the two by a bridge.

The plant was destroyed by fire in 1883 and rather than rebuild, Firmin Desloge decided to explore his properties in the present area of Desloge.

in 1895, the town was renamed for prominent local cattle rancher, Pierre Wibaux, who had immigrated to the area from France in 1883.

A post office named Two Harbors was established in the area in 1883.

In 1883, the Northern Adirondack Railroad was built from Moira south to St. Regis Falls, a major lumbering area.

In 1883, the standardized system of North American Time Zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago.

Gardner was buried in the Sunset Memorial Park, Smithfield, North Carolina, next to her brothers and their parents, Jonah ( 1878 – 1938 ) and Mollie Gardner ( 1883 – 1943 ).

Between 1883 and 1889, Hill built his railroads across Minnesota, into Wisconsin, and across North Dakota to Montana.

North Carolinian James Jefferson Lafayott Glass came to the county in 1883 and signed on with the Sterling Brothers ’ Half Circle S spread.

The county organized on May 25, 1883, and became a county in the state of North Dakota on November 2, 1889.

Dunn County was created by the 1883 Dakota Territory legislature and named for John Piatt Dunn, who opened the first drugstore in North Dakota and was a civic and commercial leader during the early history of Bismarck.

At the time of the foundation of the Mouride brotherhood in 1883, the French were in control of Senegal, as well as most of West and North Africa.

Further competition arrived in 1883, when the Eastern and Midlands Railway opened a station near the terminal basin on its line from Melton Constable to North Walsham.

* 1883 One Room School, 206 North Meridian St, Pittsboro, IN

It was first called Lee when it was founded in 1881 but was renamed in 1883 for the son one of the early North Western railroad officials.

Not content with the sawmill, Mills devised a way for the same wheels to power the North Star Mill, a gristmill that Oren Hutchinson had built at the town of Thorp in 1883, to provide feed for livestock and flour for the local residents.

Wisbech once had three railway branch lines: the 1847 / 1848-1968 GER March to Watlington ( junction ), Norfolk ( on the Ely to King's Lynn main line ) via Wisbech East ( Victoria Road ); the 1866-1959 M & GN Peterborough to Sutton Bridge via Wisbech North ( on Harecroft Road ); and the 1883 / 1884-1966 GER Wisbech and Upwell Tramway.

Nicholson Trent Ironworks ( 1840s ), Northgate Railway Station ( 1851 ), North End Wesleyan Chapel ( 1868 ), St. Leonard's Anglican Church ( 1873 ), Baptist Chapel ( 1876 ), Primitive Methodist Chapel ( 1878 ), Newark Hospital ( 1881 ), Ossington Coffee Palace ( 1882 ), Gilstrap Free Library ( 1883 ), Market Hall ( 1884 ), Unitarian Chapel ( 1884 ), The Fire Station ( 1889 ), Waterworks ( 1898 ) and the School of Science and Art ( 1900 ).

Since 1883, the company has published more than 1, 800 games ; among their best known products are Monopoly, Cluedo ( licensed from the British publisher and known as Clue in North America ), Sorry !, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Ouija, Aggravation, and Probe.

Construction of the Northern Tablelands railway service commenced in the 1870s and the Main North railway line reached Werris Creek and west Tamworth in 1878, Armidale in 1883 and Wallangarra, Queensland in 1888.

* History of the literature of the Scandinavian North By Frederik Winkel Horn, Rasmus B. Anderson, Published by S. C. Griggs and company, 1883 p. 231ff Retrieved 2011-05-02

Sinclair township, named for Donald Sinclair MPP for the North Riding of Bruce County from 1867 to 1883.

Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14, 000 students.

UND was founded in 1883, six years before North Dakota became a state.

* 1883: North: Construction of the North Australia Railway from Palmerston ( Darwin ) starts

He became the superintendent of schools in North Carolina ( 1883 &# 45 ; 93 ) and subsequently he became professor of pedagogy and German at the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College from 1893 to 1902, and in 1896 director of that institution's Practice and Observation School.

In 1883, 1885 and 1887 he made journeys to North Africa to study geology and terrestrial magnetism, and during this, period published some important charts of the distribution of pressure at a height of 4, 000 metres.