1884

Events

9. June: Grundsteinlegung of the Realm tag building in by William, the later William II.
7. August: The warships Leipzig and Elizabeth take in the bay of Angra Pequena the colony Southwest Africa for that in possession
16. September: Opening that Loessnitzgrundbahn as 3. Saxonian narrow-gauge railway
13. October: Those International meridian conference in Washinghton, DC falls a resolution over those Time belts. That Meridian of Greenwich becomes more international Nullmeridian
15. November: It begins those The conference of Congo, at their end the allocation of Africa in Colonial territories stands

World exhibition in New Orleans, Louis IANA
Rebellion that Métis against those Canadian Government
Ludwig Boltzmann justifies of Josef Stefan found law over the total radiating power (Stefan Boltzmann law, see 1879)
In New market in the Upper Palatinate the first bicycle factory of Europe is created: The "express works"

2. January: Augusts Piccard, Swiss scientists, physicist and inventor (? 1962)
4. January: Max Brose, buyer and industrieller (? 1968)
8. January: Viktor Geramb, Austrian Volkskundler (? 1958)
15. January: Erwin Jacobi, German state and Kirchenrechtler (? 1965)
16. January: Alfred green forest, Austrian Operettenlibrettist (? 1951)
16. January: Frederick Dewhurst Yates, English chess player (? 1932)
20 January: Jewgeni Iwanowitsch Samjatin, Russian revolutionaries and writers (? 1937)
26. January: Edward Sapir, US-American Ethnologe and linguist (? 1939)
31. January: : Porfirio Diaz, president (18841911)