October 24 – Cardiff University, Wales, opens (under the name of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire). October 30 – Two Clan na Gael dynamite bombs explode in the London Underground, injuring several people. The next day, British Home Secretary Vernon Harcourt drafts 300 policemen to guard the underground, and introduces the Explosives Bill. November 3 The 14th Century AH begins in the Islamic calendar on the 1st of Muharram, 1301 AH. American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the Po-8 makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture. November 14 – Chile's National Library of Congress is founded. November 18 – U.S. and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. November 28 – Whitman College is chartered as a 4-year college in Walla Walla, Washington. December 1 – Battleford Industrial School, the first government-operated Indian residential school opens in Canada. December 5 – Bisbee Massacre: Five people are killed in the robbery of a general store by bandits in Bisbee, Arizona. December 16 – Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. December 21 – The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed. Date unknown German bacteriologist Robert Koch discovers the cholera bacillus. Antoni Gaudí begins to work on the Sagrada Família Cathedral in Barcelona (it will be consecrated in 2010). Construction of Speicherstadt as a free zone in the Port of Hamburg begins. During construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, blasting and excavation reveal high concentrations of nickel–copper ore at Murray Mine, on the edge of the Sudbury Basin, located near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Otto von Bismarck pushes the first social security law through the Reichstag. The British Parliament considers a major bill to allow Indian judges to try Europeans in India. The British community rises in protest, and defeats the measure. The Mexican government passes a law allowing real estate companies (controlled by General Porfirio Díaz's political associates) to survey public and "vacant" lands, and to retain one third of the land they survey. Bernard Kroger establishes the first Kroger grocery store, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The first purebred Percheron (horse) stud book is created in France. ASEA is founded by Ludvig Fredholm in Sweden, predecessor of the global electronic