1884
Grover Cleveland elected
1884 is a year in the late nineteenth century, often referenced in historical contexts: the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa, the completion of the Washington Monument, the eight-hour workday movement.
Like other years, it functions as a noun or adjective: an 1884 edition, built in 1884.
Meeting that divided Africa
- Greenwich Mean TimePrime meridian reference hour
- Scramble for AfricaRapid European colonization period
- prime meridianZero-degree longitude line
- time zonesRegional clock-setting divisions
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
Charles Dickens · corset · top hat · carriage · penny-farthing · gentility · Victorian architecture · penny dreadfuls
Twice-elected nineteenth-century executive
- Otto von Bismarck
- Kaiser WilhelmGerman imperial sovereign
- Emperor Meiji
- Mark Twain
Art movement emphasizing light
- SeuratPointillism's founder
- pointillismDot-based art technique
- realismAccepting things as they are
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
Art Nouveau · vaudeville · operetta · Buffalo Bill · Wild West show · world's fair · daguerreotype
Ink-reservoir writing instrument
- cash registerRetail transaction machine
- roller coasterTrack with dramatic plunges
- steam turbineVapor-driven rotary motor
- photographic filmLight-sensitive image capture material
electric motor · telephone exchange · incandescent bulb · pneumatic tire · gramophone · typewriter
Berlin Conference
Meeting that divided Africa
- Greenwich Mean TimePrime meridian reference hour
- Scramble for AfricaRapid European colonization period
- prime meridianZero-degree longitude line
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
Charles Dickens · gaslight · corset · top hat · carriage · penny-farthing · gentility · Victorian architecture · penny dreadfuls · Oscar Wilde
Grover Cleveland
Twice-elected nineteenth-century executive
- Kaiser WilhelmGerman imperial sovereign
- Friedrich EngelsGerman communist philosopher
Otto von Bismarck · Emperor Meiji · Mark Twain · Sarah Bernhardt · Louis Pasteur
Impressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
- SeuratPointillism's founder
- pointillismDot-based art technique
- realismAccepting things as they are
naturalism · Art Nouveau · vaudeville · operetta · Buffalo Bill · Wild West show · world's fair · daguerreotype
fountain pen
Ink-reservoir writing instrument
- cash registerRetail transaction machine
- roller coasterTrack with dramatic plunges
- steam turbineVapor-driven rotary motor
photographic film · electric motor · telephone exchange · incandescent bulb · pneumatic tire · gramophone · typewriter