Timeline November 1883

Events in November 1883 3

• 1883 Destruction of the Hicks Pasha expedition Mahdist forces annihilate an Egyptian army in Sudan At the Battle of Shaykan near El Obeid, Mahdist rebels under Muhammad Ahmad destroyed an Egyptian expeditionary force led by British officer William Hicks. Nearly the entire force of some 8,000 men was killed, a disaster that exposed Egyptian rule in Sudan to collapse.
• 1883 US and Canadian railroads adopt standard time zones The "Day of Two Noons" ends local solar time for rail schedules On 18 November, railroads across the United States and Canada switched to a system of standardized time zones to simplify scheduling. Many towns reset their clocks simultaneously, an event popularly called the "Day of Two Noons."
• 1883 Marries Martha Flasche Three children, and a great deal of moving Diesel marries Martha Flasche in Munich. They have three children — Rudolf junior, Heddy and Eugen — and follow his career from Paris to Berlin to Munich. Martha will be the one who opens the bag thirty years later.