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    The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for...
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    for the International Meridian Conference. This conference selected the meridian passing through Greenwich as the world standard prime meridian due to...
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    Paris meridian abstaining) as the Prime Meridian of the world at the 1884 International Meridian Conference. All of these Greenwich meridians were located...
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    Twenty-six countries were present at the International Meridian Conference to vote on an international prime meridian. Ultimately the outcome was as follows:...
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    long-standing rival to the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian of the world. The "Paris meridian arc" or "French meridian arc" (French: la Méridienne de...
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  • the Prime Meridians that have been used, are used, or are proposed Greenwich Meridian established by the International Meridian Conference IERS Reference...
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    astronomical society, from 1895 to 1897. In 1884 he took part in the International Meridian Conference. Janssen died at Meudon on 23 December 1907 and was buried...
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    No international organization, nor any treaty between nations, has fixed the IDL drawn by cartographers: the 1884 International Meridian Conference explicitly...
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    d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two...
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  • The Washington meridians are four meridians that were used as prime meridians in the United States which pass through Washington, D.C. The four that have...
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    longitudes. This convention was established in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference held in Washington, D.C. where the standard time concepts...
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    zones. He advocated his system at several international conferences, including the International Meridian Conference, where it received some consideration...
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  • established in British India in 1884. It was established during the International Meridian Conference held at Washington, D.C. in the United States. It was decided...
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    04° per year. During the 1884 International Meridian Conference, when Greenwich was established as the initial meridian, the Ottoman Empire, at that time...
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    Greenwich meridian, which was considered to have longitude zero degrees, by a convention adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884. Synchronisation...
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  • British India in 1884. The time zone was established during the International Meridian Conference held at Washington, D.C. in the United States in 1884. It...
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    major cities. In October 1884, the International Meridian Conference at Washington, D.C., decided that the prime meridian for longitude and timekeeping should...
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    Rome in 1883, and the International Meridian Conference of 1884. The International Meridian Conference accepted the Greenwich Meridian and a universal day...
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    a standard prime meridian. At the International Meridian Conference in 1884, the following resolution was adopted by the conference: That this universal...
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    John Couch Adams (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    Royal Astronomical Society in 1866. In 1884, he attended the International Meridian Conference as a delegate for Britain. A crater on the Moon is jointly...
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  • development of Universal Time began at the International Meridian Conference. At the end of this conference, on 22 October 1884, the recommended base reference...
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    and later in 1884 for the International Meridian Conference to adopt by convention the Greenwich meridian as zero meridians. The 18th and 19th centuries...
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  • as Congo Conference or West Africa Conference, The International Meridian Conference of 1884, The "International Plenipotentiary Conference to Conclude...
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    the accuracy of the time nationwide. Daylight saving time International Meridian Conference of 1884 Mecca Time Time standard Time zone Universal Time...
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    lines. 1884 The International Meridian Conference in Washington D.C. decides that the Greenwich Prime Meridian should be the Prime meridian for the whole...
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  • and the British Empire The International Meridian Conference of 1884 in Washington DC, establishing the Greenwich Meridian, the world time zone system...
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    meridian half a century before the International Meridian Conference of 1884 established one for Earth. The definition of the Martian prime meridian has...
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  • Time becoming a de facto international time standard from the eighteenth century. The 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington DC determined...
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  • should henceforth be given according to Amsterdam Time. The International Meridian Conference was held in Washington, D.C. in October 1884, which was attended...
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  • national meridian for the United States gradually faded, and in 1884, U.S. President Chester A. Arthur called the International Meridian Conference in Washington...
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