• The volcano Krakatoa erupted, destroying two-thirds of the Indonesian island of Rakata and creating tsunamis which destroyed 165 villages and killed 36,000 people.
• The quagga becomes extinct when the last living animal dies in the Amsterdam Zoo.

These people were born in 1883:

• Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
• Austrian writer Franz Kafka.
• English economist John Maynard Keynes.
• American cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

These people died in 1883:

• German political philosopher Karl Marx.
• German composer Richard Wagner.
• French painter Edouard Manet.

1882 - 1883 - 1884

19th century

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