Timeline February 1884

Events in February 1884 2

• 1826 – 1884 Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826-1884) Died 8 February 1884, aged 58 Cetshwayo kaMpande was the king of the Zulu Kingdom during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, in which his forces famously defeated the British at Isandlwana before ultimately losing the war. He was exiled to Britain and later partially restored to a reduced kingdom amid ongoing civil conflict. He died in Eshowe in Zululand.
• 1884 First fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary published Landmark dictionary project begins publication The Philological Society and Oxford University Press published the first fascicle of what would become the Oxford English Dictionary, covering words from A to Ant. Edited initially by James Murray, the dictionary aimed to document the full history of every English word. The complete first edition would not be finished until 1928.