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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1884 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1884
MDCCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita2637
Armenian calendar1333
ԹՎ ՌՅԼԳ
Assyrian calendar6634
Baháʼí calendar40–41
Balinese saka calendar1805–1806
Bengali calendar1291
Berber calendar2834
British Regnal year47 Vict. 1 – 48 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2428
Burmese calendar1246
Byzantine calendar7392–7393
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4581 or 4374
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4582 or 4375
Coptic calendar1600–1601
Discordian calendar3050
Ethiopian calendar1876–1877
Hebrew calendar5644–5645
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1940–1941
 - Shaka Samvat1805–1806
 - Kali Yuga4984–4985
Holocene calendar11884
Igbo calendar884–885
Iranian calendar1262–1263
Islamic calendar1301–1302
Japanese calendarMeiji 17
(明治17年)
Javanese calendar1813–1814
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4217
Minguo calendar28 before ROC
民前28年
Nanakshahi calendar416
Thai solar calendar2426–2427
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
2010 or 1629 or 857
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
2011 or 1630 or 858

1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1884th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 884th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1884, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

March 13: Siege of Khartoum.MAhatma gandhi khade h
November 15: Berlin Conference

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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August 5: Statue of Liberty erection begun

October–December

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October 6: US Naval War College founded.

Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Date unknown

January

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Auguste Piccard
Rickard Sandler
Pedro Pablo Ramírez
Theodor Heuss

February

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March

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April

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May

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Harry S. Truman

June

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Édouard Daladier
Empress Teimei
Gaston Bachelard

July

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Amedeo Modigliani

August

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Rómulo Gallegos
John S. McCain Sr.
Vincent Auriol

September

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İsmet İnönü

October

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Eleanor Roosevelt

November

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December

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Rajendra Prasad
Petru Groza
Hideki Tojo

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–June

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Gregor Mendel
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
Bedřich Smetana

July–December

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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Leona Florentino

References

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  1. ^ Hutton, Ronald (2009). Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14485-7.
  2. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  3. ^ "Patent #33/256". Bollettino delle Privative Industriali del Regno d'Italia. 2nd Series. 15: 635–655. 1884.
  4. ^ "The Forestry Exhibition". The Morning Post. London. July 2, 1884. p. 3.
  5. ^ ja:三菱重工長崎造船所#沿革 (Japanese language edition) Retrieved on June 28, 2020.
  6. ^ Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L., Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527 (Revised ed.), United States Government Printing Office, pp. 314–316[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Martinic Beros, Mateo (2003). "La minería aurífera en la región austral americana (1869-1950)". Historia (in Spanish). 36. doi:10.4067/S0717-71942003003600009 (inactive September 12, 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024 (link)
  8. ^ Treptow, Kurt W. (1996). A History of Romania. Iasi: Center for Romania Studies. p. 590. ISBN 978-0-88033-345-0.
  9. ^ "Porfirio Díaz". Busca Biografias (in Spanish). Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  10. ^ "John Boland, Local Pioneer, Dies At 74". Rapid City Daily Journal. October 10, 1958. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved June 19, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Stephens, George Myers (1979). "Camp, Cordelia". NCpedia. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
  12. ^ Jessup, John E. (1998). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-313-28112-9.

Further reading and year books

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  • 1884 Annual Cyclopedia (1885) highly detailed coverage of "Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry" for year 1884; massive compilation of facts and primary documents; worldwide coverage; 855pp