* Astronomy

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 6, 1883.
The path of totality fell across the southern Pacific Ocean with no major landfall. Partiality was visible from far eastern Australia at sunrise, and New Zealand, as well as western South America and southern Mexico near sunset.
An expedition of American astronomers travelled from Peru to Caroline Island aboard the USS Hartford to observe the total solar eclipse. A French expedition also observed the eclipse from Caroline, and the United States Navy mapped the atoll. Johann Palisa, a member of the expedition, discovered an asteroid later that year which he named Carolina "in remembrance of his visit to [the] island."
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 This was at the eclipse of 6 May 1883, which Trouvelot saw from Caroline Island in the South Seas. He also made some comments about the island itself - which was inhabited by four men, one woman, and three children, whose lives were "absolutely eventless"
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