April 30 – New York Governor Grover Cleveland signs a bill authorizing protection of land for Niagara Falls State Park, which would eventually lead to the Niagara Reservation being established two years later in 1885.
May 24 – Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic after 13 years of construction.
May 30 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes 12 people.
July–Septemberedit
August – Senator George Vest, along with President Chester A. Arthur, with cabinet members, begin a fishing trip to Yellowstone Park for two weeks, becoming the first sitting president to visit the park, and bringing national attention to Yellowstone.
August 1 – President Chester A. Arthur opens the first Southern Exposition In Louisville.
September 5 – Mary F. Hoyt becomes the first woman appointed to the U.S. federal civil service (and the second person appointed by examination (in which she came top) instituted under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act) when she becomes a clerk in the Bank Redemption Agency of the Department of the Treasury.
American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-et" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
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Events from the year 1883 in the United States 1882 1881 1880 1883 in the United States 1884 1885 1886Decades 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900sSee also History of the United States 1865 1918 Timeline of United States history 1860 1899 List of years in the United States Contents 1 Incumbents 1 1 Federal government 1 2 Governors 1 3 Lieutenant governors 2 Events 2 1 January March 2 2 April June 2 3 July September 2 4 October December 2 5 Undated 2 6 Ongoing 3 Sport 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also 7 External linksIncumbents editFederal government edit President Chester A Arthur R New York Vice President vacant Chief Justice Morrison Waite Ohio Speaker of the House of Representatives J Warren Keifer R Ohio until March 4 John G Carlisle D Kentucky starting December 3 Congress 47th until March 4 48th starting March 4 Governors and lieutenant governors Governors edit Governor of Alabama Edward A O Neal Democratic Governor of Arkansas Thomas James Churchill Democratic until January 13 James Henderson Berry Democratic starting January 13 Governor of California George Clement Perkins Republican until January 10 George Stoneman Republican starting January 10 Governor of Colorado Frederick Walker Pitkin Republican until January 9 James Benton Grant Democratic starting January 9 Governor of Connecticut Hobart B Bigelow Republican until January 3 Thomas M Waller Democratic starting January 3 Governor of Delaware John W Hall Democratic until January 16 Charles C Stockley Democratic starting January 16 Governor of Florida William D Bloxham Democratic Governor of Georgia until March 4 Alexander H Stephens Democratic March 4 May 10 James S Boynton Democratic starting May 10 Henry D McDaniel Democratic Governor of Illinois Shelby Moore Cullom Republican until February 16 John Marshall Hamilton Republican starting February 16 Governor of Indiana Albert G Porter Republican Governor of Iowa Buren R Sherman Republican Governor of Kansas John P St John Republican until January 8 George W Glick Democratic starting January 8 Governor of Kentucky Luke P Blackburn Democratic until September 5 J Proctor Knott Democratic starting September 5 Governor of Louisiana Samuel D McEnery Democratic Governor of Maine Harris M Plaisted Democratic until January 3 Frederick Robie Republican starting January 3 Governor of Maryland William T Hamilton Democratic Governor of Massachusetts John Davis Long Republican until January 4 Benjamin F Butler Democratic starting January 4 Governor of Michigan David Jerome Republican until January 1 Josiah Begole Democratic starting January 1 Governor of Minnesota Lucius F Hubbard Republican Governor of Mississippi Robert Lowry Democratic Governor of Missouri Thomas Theodore Crittenden Democratic Governor of Nebraska Albinus Nance Republican until January 4 James W Dawes Republican starting January 4 Governor of Nevada John Henry Kinkead Republican until January 1 Jewett W Adams Democratic starting January 1 Governor of New Hampshire Charles H Bell Republican until June 7 Samuel W Hale Republican starting June 7 Governor of New Jersey George C Ludlow Democratic Governor of New York Grover Cleveland Democratic starting January 1 Governor of North Carolina Thomas Jordan Jarvis Democratic Governor of Ohio Charles Foster Republican Governor of Oregon Z F Moody Republican Governor of Pennsylvania Henry M Hoyt Republican until January 16 Robert E Pattison Democratic starting January 16 Governor of Rhode Island Alfred H Littlefield Republican until May 29 Augustus O Bourn Republican starting May 29 Governor of South Carolina Hugh Smith Thompson Democratic Governor of Tennessee Alvin Hawkins Republican until January 15 William B Bate Democratic starting January 15 Governor of Texas Oran M Roberts Democratic until January 16 John Ireland Democratic starting January 16 Governor of Vermont John L Barstow Republican Governor of Virginia William E Cameron Re adjuster Governor of West Virginia Jacob B Jackson Democratic Governor of Wisconsin Jeremiah McLain Rusk Republican Lieutenant governors edit Lieutenant Governor of California John Mansfield Republican until January 10 John Daggett Democratic starting January 10 Lieutenant Governor of Colorado Horace Austin Warner Tabor Republican until January 9 William H Meyer Republican starting January 9 Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut William H Bulkeley Republican until January 3 George G Sumner Democratic starting January 3 Lieutenant Governor of Florida Livingston W Bethel no political party Lieutenant Governor of Illinois John Marshall Hamilton Republican until February 6 William J Campbell Republican starting month and day unknown Lieutenant Governor of Indiana Thomas Hanna Republican Lieutenant Governor of Iowa Orlando H Manning Republican Lieutenant Governor of Kansas David Wesley Finney Republican Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky James E Cantrill Democratic until September 5 James R Hindman Democratic starting September 5 Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana vacant Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Byron Weston Republican until January 4 Oliver Ames Republican starting January 4 Lieutenant Governor of Michigan Moreau S Crosby Republican Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota Charles A Gilman Republican Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi G D Shands Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Missouri Robert Alexander Campbell Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska Edmund C Carns Republican until January 4 Alfred W Agee Republican starting January 4 Lieutenant Governor of Nevada Jewett W Adams Democratic until month and day unknown Charles E Laughton Republican starting month and day unknown Lieutenant Governor of New York David B Hill Republican starting January 1 Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina James L Robinson Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Ohio Rees G Richards Republican Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Charles Warren Stone Republican until January 16 Chauncey Forward Black Democratic starting January 16 Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island Henry Fay political party unknown until May 29 Oscar Rathbun political party unknown starting May 29 Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina John Calhoun Sheppard Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee George H Morgan Democratic until month and day unknown Benjamin F Alexander Democratic starting month and day unknown Lieutenant Governor of Texas Leonidas J Storey Democratic until January 16 Francis M Martin Democratic starting January 16 Lieutenant Governor of Vermont Samuel E Pingree Republican Lieutenant Governor of Virginia John F Lewis Republican Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin Sam S Fifield Republican Events edit nbsp May 24 Brooklyn Bridge opens January March edit January 10 A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73 people January 16 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act reforming the United States civil service with the aim to end the spoils system becomes law January 19 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle New Jersey it was built by Thomas Edison February 23 Alabama becomes the first U S state to enact an antitrust law February 28 The first vaudeville theater is opened in Boston Massachusetts March Congress authorizes first steel vessels in the United States Navy Susan Hayhurst becomes first woman to get a pharmacy degree in the United States April June edit April 13 Prospector Alferd Packer convicted of manslaughter after being accused of cannibalism April 30 New York Governor Grover Cleveland signs a bill authorizing protection of land for Niagara Falls State Park which would eventually lead to the Niagara Reservation being established two years later in 1885 May 19 Buffalo Bill s Wild West Show debuts In Omaha Nebraska May 24 Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic after 13 years of construction May 30 In New York City a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes 12 people July September edit August Senator George Vest along with President Chester A Arthur with cabinet members begin a fishing trip to Yellowstone Park for two weeks becoming the first sitting president to visit the park and bringing national attention to Yellowstone August 1 President Chester A Arthur opens the first Southern Exposition In Louisville September 5 Mary F Hoyt becomes the first woman appointed to the U S federal civil service and the second person appointed by examination in which she came top instituted under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act when she becomes a clerk in the Bank Redemption Agency of the Department of the Treasury September 15 The University of Texas at Austin opens to students September 29 A consortium of flour mill operators in Minneapolis Minnesota forms the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie Railroad as a means to get their product to the Great Lakes ports but avoid the high tariffs of Chicago October December edit October 15 The Supreme Court of the United States declares part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional since the Court allows private individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race November 3 American Old West Self described Black Bart the Po et gets away with his last stagecoach robbery but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture Danville Massacre Race riots in Danville Virginia kill 4 black Americans November 18 U S and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones ending the confusion of thousands of local times November 28 Whitman College is chartered as a 4 year college in Walla Walla Washington Undated edit The Wolf s Head Society known as The Third Society until 1888 is founded at Yale University Duncan Arizona is founded A depression starts in Seattle Washington United States The Capital Area Humane Society of Ohio is founded Bernard Kroger establishes the first Kroger grocery store in Cincinnati Ohio Ongoing edit Gilded Age 1869 c 1896 Depression of 1882 85 1882 1885 Sport editSeptember 27 The Boston Red Stockings clinch their First National League pennant with a 4 1 win over the Cleveland Blues Births editJanuary 10 Francis X Bushman screen actor died 1966 Florence Reed actress died 1967 January 19 Waite Phillips businessman and philanthropist died 1964 January 20 Enoch L Johnson political boss and racketeer died 1968 January 25 Homer Bone U S Senator from Washington from 1933 to 1944 died 1970 January 30 Eddie Collins vaudeville veteran comic died 1940 March 3 Edwin Carewe Native American director died 1940 March 19 Joseph Stilwell general died 1946 April 2 Pearl Doles Bell film scenarist novelist and editor died 1968 April 3 Walter Walker U S Senator from Colorado in 1932 died 1956 April 12 Imogen Cunningham photographer died 1976 May 22 Jane Grey actress died 1944 May 23 Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckling silent film actor died 1939 June 7 Sylvanus Morley Mayanist died 1948 June 21 Richard Remer athlete died 1973 June 25 Paul Bartholomew architect died 1973 June 26 Mary van Kleeck labor activist died 1972 July 4 Rube Goldberg cartoonist sculptor author engineer and inventor died 1970 July 24 Nelle Wilson Reagan mother of United States President Ronald Reagan d 1962 August 18 Sidney Hatch athlete died 1966 September 5 Mel Sheppard athlete died 1942 September 19 Mabel Vernon suffragist died 1975 November 8 Charles Demuth painter died 1935 November 25 Merrill C Meigs newspaper publisher and aviation promoter died 1968 November 26 Belle da Costa Greene librarian died 1950 December 19 Barry Byrne architect died 1967 December 22 Edna Goodrich actress died 1972 December 31 Leo Otis Colbert admiral and engineer director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey died 1968 Deaths editJanuary 10 Samuel Mudd physician imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln born 1833 January 12 Clark Mills sculptor born 1810 January 13 Webster Wagner inventor manufacturer and politician born 1817 February 16 Stephen P Hempstead 2nd Governor of Iowa from 1850 to 1854 born 1812 March 4 Alexander H Stephens only vice president of the Confederate States of America born 1812 March 15 Henry C Wayne U S Army officer Confederate brigadier general born 1815 March 26 Joseph Saberton U S Army private Union Army born 1830 March 28 Napoleon Bonaparte Buford general and railroad executive born 1807 April 4 Peter Cooper industrialist inventor philanthropist and candidate for President of the U S born 1791 April 6 Benjamin Wright Raymond politician twice mayor of Chicago born 1801 April 28 William M Browne politician and newsman Acting Confederate States Secretary of State in 1862 born 1823 in Ireland May 15 Josiah Gorgas Northern born Confederate general born 1818 June 14 Charles Timothy Brooks poet and translator born 1813 Eugene Casserly U S Senator from California from 1869 to 1873 born 1820 July 15 General Tom Thumb dwarf performer born 1838 July 22 Edward Ord engineer and U S Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War the Indian Wars and the American Civil War born 1818 July 23 Ginery Twichell transportation manager and politician born 1811 July 24 Thomas Swann politician and president of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1847 to 1853 born 1809 July 27 Montgomery Blair politician and lawyer born 1813 September 16 Junius Brutus Booth Jr actor and theatre manager born 1821 October 4 Henry Farnam surveyor railroad president and philanthropist born 1809 October 22 Thomas Mayne Reid novelist born 1818 in Ireland November 20 Augustus C Dodge U S Senator from Iowa from 1848 to 1855 born 1812 November 24 Albert Fitch Bellows landscape painter born 1829 November 26 Sojourner Truth African American abolitionist and women s rights activist born c 1797 December 27 Andrew A Humphreys general and civil engineer born 1810 Mary S B Shindler poet born 1810 See also editTimeline of United States history 1860 1899 External links edit nbsp Media related to 1883 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from 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