WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1884
Find out what all happened February to August 1884

More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. (19. February 1884)

The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria (31. May 1884)

The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. (1. February 1884)

Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States. (1. May 1884)

Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. (1. May 1884)

Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo becomes the king of the Zulu Nation. (20. May 1884)

Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average. (3. July 1884)

The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885. (13. March 1884)

Germany takes possession of Cameroon. (5. July 1884)

Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus. (20. April 1884)

The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor. (5. August 1884)

A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse. (27. March 1884)