International Meridian Conference, 1884

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:country	gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:endDate	1884-10-22
gptkbp:followedBy	global adoption of Greenwich as prime meridian
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	International Meridian Conference, 1884
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:mainDecision	Greenwich meridian adopted as the international prime meridian Adoption of a universal day Longitude counted east and west from Greenwich Universal day begins at midnight at Greenwich
gptkbp:notableParticipant	gptkb:Austria-Hungary gptkb:Belgium gptkb:Brazil gptkb:Chile gptkb:Costa_Rica gptkb:Denmark gptkb:Dominican_Republic gptkb:El_Salvador gptkb:France gptkb:Germany gptkb:Guatemala gptkb:Haiti gptkb:Honduras gptkb:Italy gptkb:Japan gptkb:Liberia gptkb:Mexico gptkb:Netherlands gptkb:Paraguay gptkb:Russia gptkb:Spain gptkb:Sweden gptkb:Switzerland gptkb:Turkey gptkb:United_Kingdom gptkb:United_States gptkb:Venezuela gptkb:San_Domingo
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:France
gptkbp:organizedBy	gptkb:President_Chester_A._Arthur
gptkbp:precededBy	various national meridian standards
gptkbp:purpose	to establish a prime meridian for international use
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Greenwich_Mean_Time gptkb:International_Date_Line gptkb:Longitude Prime meridian
gptkbp:result	Greenwich selected as Prime Meridian
gptkbp:startDate	1884-10-01
gptkbp:troopContributingCountries	25
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Prime_Meridian_(0°_longitude)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8