1883
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"European manufacturers dream night and day of Africa, of a lake in the Saharan desert, of a railroad to the Soudan. They anxiously follow the progress of Livingston, Stanley, Du Chaillu; they listen open-mouthed to the marvelous tales of these brave travelers. What unknown wonders are contained in the “dark continent”! Fields are sown with elephants’ teeth, rivers of cocoanut oil are dotted with gold, millions of backsides, as bare as the faces of Dufaure and Girardin, are awaiting cotton goods to teach them decency, and bottles of schnaps and bibles from which they may learn the virtues of civilization." --The Right to Be Lazy (1883) by Paul Lafargue "A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels"--"Voyelles" (1883) by Arthur Rimbaud |
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1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) is the 883rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1880s decade.
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Events
- August 26–August 27 – Krakatoa volcano erupts at 10:02 AM (local time); 163 villages are destroyed, 36,380 killed by tsunami.
- Les XX founded
Art and culture
Visual culture
- Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe by Arthur Sapeck
- The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops by Odilon Redon
Literature
- Kryptádia Vol. 1 (1883)
Fiction
- Contes cruels, a collection of stories French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Non-fiction
- L'Art moderne by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- "The Right to Be Lazy", an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue
- A Problem in Greek Ethics, an essay by John Addington Symonds
Births
- April 3 – Frits Van den Berghe, painter (d. 1939)
- Franz Kafka
- Benito Mussolini
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Sax Rohmer
- Edgard Varèse
- Walter Gropius
- Lon Chaney, Sr.
Deaths
- Gustave Doré
- Ivan Turgenev
- Karl Marx
- Edouard Manet
- May 5 - Louis Viardot, French non-fiction writer (b. 1800)
