WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1883
Find out what all happened June to October 1883

First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. (4. October 1883)

First run of the Orient Express. (4. October 1883)

Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá province is ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the War of the Pacific. (20. October 1883)

The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. (17. August 1883)

The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries. (8. September 1883)

The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children. (16. June 1883)

The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. (5. June 1883)

The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (12. August 1883)

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust. (22. October 1883)

France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin. (25. August 1883)

An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic. (21. August 1883)

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage. (26. August 1883)