Historical Events in 1884
64 curated events dated to this year, and 261 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1884
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Oxford English Dictionary Begins Publication
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Publication of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
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Charles Parsons Invents the Modern Steam Turbine
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Friendship with William Butler Yeats
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Hiram Maxim Develops the First Automatic Machine Gun
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Ordination as a Catholic Priest
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Publication of 'Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta'
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Publication of 'Ramona'
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Scramble for Africa Begins with Berlin Conference
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The Agonizing Trench Endurance during the Siege of Khartoum
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Adoption of Greenwich Mean Time
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Death of Charles Stuart Calverley
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Death of Levi Thaxter
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Development of Smokeless Powder
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Early Education in Boston
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Education at Atlanta University
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Father's Death and Mother's Remarriage (1884)
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Final Publication: 'The Fall of Jerusalem'
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Final Years and Legacy
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German Accident Insurance Law Passed
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Graduation from Great Barrington High School
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Houbigant Introduces Fougère Royale with Synthetic Coumarin
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Lewis Waterman Patents the Modern Fountain Pen
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Meeting Walt Whitman
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Moody's Mother Passes Away
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Noyes Moves to Aberystwyth
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Publication of 'A Minor Poet and Other Verse'
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Publication of 'Mopsa the Fairy'
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Publication of 'The Last of the Old School'
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Relocation to New York City
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The Decadent Movement
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Third Reform Act
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Death of Romantic Interest Judge Otis Phillips Lord
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Discovery of Hirudin in Leech Saliva
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Education at the Metropolitan School of Art
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Founding of the Fabian Society
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Gaelic Athletic Association Founded
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Gordon Relief Expedition and Fall of Khartoum
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Graduation from Pomeroy Academy
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Marriage to Elizabeth Sharp
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Marriage to Mary E. Foss
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Marriage to Robert Wilcox
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Move to Dublin, Ireland
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Oliver Heaviside reformulates Maxwell's equations in Devon
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Oscar Wilde's Marriage to Constance Lloyd
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R. v. Dudley and Stephens
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The Agonizing Survival of the Greely Arctic Expedition
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Birth of Second Child, Rosamund
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Education at Winchester College
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Fabian Society Founded
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First Teaching Position in Buck Ridge, Ohio
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Hardy Becomes a Justice of the Peace in Dorchester
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Publication of 'The Life and Letters of Charles Mackay'
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Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes
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Symons Edits Shakespeare Quartos for Quaritch
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Thomas Stevens' Global Penny-Farthing Journey
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British Annexation of New Guinea
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Establishment of the British Protectorate in Somaliland
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German Vernacular Policies in Namibia
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Marriage to Mary E. Woodberry
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Marriage to Mary Firth
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Pitt Rivers Museum Opens
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Wilde Settles at 16 Tite Street, Chelsea
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Yeats's Education at the Metropolitan School of Art
Poets alive in 1884
261 poets
Poets in 1884
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