Standard time zones adopted in North America
1883 · Event
On the 'day of two noons' North American railways adopt William F. Allen's zone system; the Washington meridian conference fixes Greenwich as the prime meridian the next year.
On these timelines: Master, Science & Technology, Canada, Industrial Revolution, USA
Around 1883
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Berlin Conference (1884)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)