If People Were Dolphins, the Planet Would Be Called “Ocean” - Don't Know Much About Geography - page 89

1883 The Orient Express , connecting Paris to Constantinople (Istanbul), makes its first run.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge is opened to traffic.
1887 German inventor Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) installs the internal-combustion engine he
had devised four years earlier in a four-wheeled vehicle, one of the first automobiles.