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In 1883, nine years after Francis Garnier's death, the French naval officer Henri Rivière was also killed by the Black Flags in Tonkin, in remarkably similar circumstances.
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1883 and nine
He died on the evening of Monday November 19, 1883, at nine o ' clock and was buried on Monday November 26, in Kensal Green Cemetery.
Regarding the beginnings of his mental tests, in Leipzig, Cattell independently began to measure “ simple mental processes ” Between 1883 and 1886, Cattell published nine articles discussing human reaction time rates and individual differences.
Born in Leeds in 1883, Kennedy was the seventh of nine children born to Jeanette Anketell and William Studdert Kennedy, a vicar in Leeds.
Von Boeselager was the fifth of nine children of Freiherr Albert von Boeselager ( 1883 – 1956 ) and his wife Freiin Maria-Theresia von Salis-Soglio ( 1890 – 1968 ).
* Cavan and Leitrim Light Railway 78 km ( 48. 5 mi ); ( gauge ); incorporated 1883, opened 1888 ; nine locomotives, 167 other vehicles
He served in the Forty-eighth and the nine succeeding Congresses, from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1903.
By 1883 nine shipyards, three sawmills, a brass and iron foundry, a glassworks, an asphalt works as well as several coal and lime traders were present.
That pessimism had been caused by the situation of Poland ( which nine decades earlier, upon the completion of the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, had ceased to exist as an independent country ) and by the 1883 failure of Nowiny ( News ), a Warsaw daily that Prus had been editing for less than a year.
In 1883 the Rincon School district was established and classes were first held in the home of Robert Callis with nine pupils in attendance.
In 1883 he became inspector of public accounts and later paymaster of the Treasury for nine years until he retired.
Wadia was born at Surat in Gujarat, the fourth of nine children of Nosherwan and Gooverbai Wadia on 25 October 1883.
1883 and years
The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.
Hoover mediated between Chile and Peru to solve a conflict on the sovereignty of Arica and Tacna, that in 1883 by the Treaty of Ancón had been awarded to Chile for ten years, to be followed by a plebiscite that had never happened.
First invented in 1883, the six-stroke engine has seen renewed interest over the last 20 or so years.
* John Anson Ford ( 1883 – 1983 ), American local-level legislator who served on Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 24 years ( 1934 – 58 ); Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator ( 1940 )
Telecommunications had an early beginning in Mauritius, with the first telephone line installed in 1883, seven years after the invention of the telephone.
In 1883, basic telephony was introduced in Mauritius, only seven years after the invention of the telephone.
Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier.
Wilson began his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1883 and three years later completed his doctoral dissertation, " Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics " and received a PhD in history and political science.
The Royal College of Physicians, of which corporate body Harvey was a munificent Benefactor did in the years 1882 – 1883, by permission of the Representatives of the Harvey family, undertake this duty.
Carey endured several years of social and regimental opprobrium before his death in Bombay, India, on February 22, 1883.
Over the next ten years, they had five children: Émile ( 1874 – 1955 ); Aline ( 1877 – 1897 ); Clovis ( 1879 – 1900 ); Jean René ( 1881 – 1961 ); and Paul Rollon ( 1883 – 1961 ).
Black socks were first included in 1883 for five seasons before disappearing for eight years but became a more permanent fixture from 1896 onwards.
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.
John Brown ( December 8, 1826 – March 27, 1883 ) was a Scottish personal servant and favourite of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom for many years.
The first building, with funding from the territorial legislature, was built in 1883, six years before the State of South Dakota was incorporated.
In 1883 the " Darby News " was formed in Milford Center and eventually became the " Milford Echo " before folding, the " Milford Ohioan " was formed in 1887, the " Richwood Gazette " in 1872, the " Richwood Reporter " in 1882, which ceased operations two years later when destroyed by fire, and the " Octograph Review ".
In 1883, after years of lobbying, Kentucky created a special section of law, allowing Campbell County to form a Court House District.
After initial years of financial struggle, the Hartley Institute became the Hartley College in 1883.
In later years Blake claimed to have been born in 1883, but his Social Security application and all other official documents issued in the first half of his life list his year of birth as 1887.
In 1883, writer Patrick Hamilton estimated that during the first four years of activity the mines produced about USD $ 25, 000, 000 ( approximately $ today ).
1883 and after
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.
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.
This was first suggested by Mereschkowsky in 1905 after an observation by Schimper in 1883 that chloroplasts closely resemble cyanobacteria.
Not long after that, in 1883, Georg Cantor, who attended lectures by Weierstrass, published examples of subsets of the real line known as Cantor sets, which had unusual properties and are now recognized as fractals.
Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).
But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.
After being founded in 1883 as the " Quakers ", the team changed its name to the " Philadelphias ", after the convention of the times.
It started to recover its role of industrial prominence after the connection with Piacenza and Bologna of 1859, and with Fornovo and Suzzara in 1883.
Liberalism, was represented in France by the Orleanists who rallied to the Third Republic only in the late 19th century, after the comte de Chambord's 1883 death and the 1891 papal encyclical Rerum Novarum.
The populist Readjuster Party ran an inclusive coalition until the conservative white Democratic Party gained power after 1883.
Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World in 1883 after making the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the dominant daily in that city.
The musical establishment constantly pressured Sullivan to abandon comic opera in favour of serious music, and after he was knighted in 1883, the pressure only increased.
First, Townley's wife died of Bright's disease in November 1883 after the deaths of the couple's two young children.
The prince, after vainly endeavouring to obtain the recall of the generals, restored the constitution with the concurrence of all the Bulgarian political parties ( 19 September 1883 ).
La Défense is named after the iconic statue La Défense de Paris, which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
Felix became heir to the immense fortune after his older brother Nikolai Felixovich, Count Sumarokov-Elston ( born 1883 ), was killed in a duel on June 22, 1908.
The final attempt to make use of the colossus came from the Comte de Chambord but after the Comte died in 1883, the château was left to his sister's heirs, the titular Dukes of Parma, then resident in Austria.
McIntosh County was created by the 1883 territorial legislature after the southern half of Logan County was divided.
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