Editing 1883 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 4]] &ndash; ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. 
* [[January 10]] &ndash; A [[Newhall House Hotel Fire|fire at the Newhall Hotel]] in [[Milwaukee]], Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* [[January 16]] &ndash; The [[Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act]], establishing the [[United States civil service]], is passed.
* [[January 19]] &ndash;  The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in [[Roselle, New Jersey]], United States, installed by [[Thomas Edison]].
* [[February]] &ndash; ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' by [[Carlo Collodi]] is first published complete in book form, in Italy.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; Tokyo Electrical Lightning Grid, predecessor of Tokyo Electrical Power ([[TEPCO]]), one of the largest [[electrical grid]]s in [[Asia]] and the world, is founded in Japan.<ref>[[:ja:東京配電#沿革]] '''(Japanese language edition)''' Retrieved on July 12, 2020.</ref> 
* [[February 16]] &ndash; The ''[[Ladies' Home Journal]]'' is published for the first time, in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation|url=http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|work=PSA Research Center|access-date=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115225953/http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|archive-date=November 15, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Alabama]] becomes the first U.S. state to enact an [[Competition law|antitrust law]].
* [[February 28]] &ndash; The first [[vaudeville]] theater is opened, in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].
* [[March 2]] &ndash; The [[Hong Kong Observatory]] is established.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hko.gov.hk/abouthko/history_e.htm|title=History of the Hong Kong Observatory|date=20 May 2011|publisher=Hong Kong Observatory|access-date=7 August 2011|archive-date=January 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111223013/http://www.hko.gov.hk/abouthko/history_e.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] &ndash; The [[Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property]] is held.<ref>{{cite book|author=World Intellectual Property Organization|title=The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property from 1883 to 1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8GjDwAAQBAJ|year=1983|publisher=WIPO|isbn=978-92-805-0099-8}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] &ndash; [[Battle of Gia Cuc]]: A French force defeats the Vietnamese in northern [[Vietnam]] in the run-up to the [[Sino-French War]].