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| 1883 |
| | | English polymath Francis Galton publishes Inquiries in Human Faculty, developing the theme of eugenics and coining the term | |
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| 1883 |
| | | French marines land at Tamatave in Madagascar to protect French interests and assert French control | |
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| 1883 |
| | | In Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche envisages the Übermensch ('superman') enhancing human existence | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Mark Twain's autobiographical book Life on the Mississippi details his own personal involvement with the great river | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Mohammed Ahmed, proclaiming himself the Mahdi, defeats three Egyptian armies in the Sudan | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Eruption of the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa sends six cubic miles of debris into the atmosphere and causes a huge tsunami | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure story, Treasure Island, features Long John Silver and Ben Gunn | |
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| 1883 |
| | | William Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, celebrates the world of the cowboy in his immensely successful Wild West Show | |
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| 1883-1884 |
| | | After the gallery is built in Kew Gardens at her expense, Marianne North continues to travel and paint, eventually filling it with 832 pictures. She dies in 1890. | |
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| 1883 |
| | | French artist Claude Monet moves to Giverny, where he creates and paints a famous lily pond | |
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