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The 1883 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 7 July until 16 July. [ 1 ] It was the 7th staging of the Wimbledon Championships , and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1883. [ 2 ]
The J. Boag & Son brewery is established in Launceston, Tasmania.; 12 June – The first Australasian headquarters of the Salvation Army opened in Melbourne.; 14 June – A rail service between Sydney and Melbourne commences when the NSW and Victorian rail systems are joined at Albury.
Mariposa was an iron ship built in 1883 in Philadelphia by the William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company.It was of 3,000 gross register tons and was built for the Oceanic Steamship Company, which had been founded in 1881 by John D. Spreckels & Brothers to provide passenger and cargo service between San Francisco and Honolulu, Hawaii.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio, illustration from the first Italian edition. January 13 – Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende, 1882) gains its first performance at the Christiania Theatre.
The commission issued its first rules in May 1883; by 1884, half of all postal officials and three-quarters of the Customs Service jobs were to be awarded by merit. [28] During his first term, President Grover Cleveland expanded the number of federal positions subject to the merit system from 16,000 to 27,000.
The 1883 Victorian Football Association season was the seventh season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club . It was the club's fifth VFA premiership in just six seasons, and was the second in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.
On January 23, 1883, each House of the West Virginia Legislature chose a senator to replace retiring incumbent, Henry G. Davis. In both chambers, the ballot was a three-way race between John E. Kenna , a Democratic congressman, George Loomis, a state judge and former state senator, and Berkeley County resident John Tabb Janney. [ 7 ]