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| 1871 |
| | | Stanley, finding Livingstone at Ujiji, greets him with four words which become famous – 'Dr Livingstone, I presume' | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, is commissioned for the Cairo opera house, part of the process of Egypt becoming westernized | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Italian US immigrant Antonio Meucci files a patent in New York for the invention of the telephone | |
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| 1871 |
| | | George Eliot publishes Middlemarch, in which Dorothea makes a disastrous marriage to the pedantic Edward Casaubon | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Whistler begins to paint his Nocturnes, a revolutionary series of night-time images on the river Thames | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Ballot Act adds to the British electoral system the essential element of secrecy in voting | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The US Congress establishes Yellowstone, with its famous geysers, as the world's first national park | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin splits the International Congress into rival camps at its meeting in the Hague | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad cuts through the territory reserved for American Indians, bringing hordes of 'boomers' | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Pragmatism emerges as a philosophical approach in meetings of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
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