1883
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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.
Art and culture
- Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe by Arthur Sapeck
- The Shapeless Polyp Floated along the Bank, a Sort of Hideous, Smiling Cyclops by Odilon Redon
- L'Art moderne by Joris-Karl Huysmans
- "The Right to Be Lazy", an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue
- Contes cruels
- 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
- Eglai ou Amour et plaisir by Louis Pierre Prudent Legay, Bruxelles, J.-J. Gay, 1883;
Births
- Franz Kafka
- Benito Mussolini
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Sax Rohmer
- Edgard Varèse
- Walter Gropius
- Lon Chaney, Sr.
Deaths
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