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| 1872 |
| | | Cetshwayo becomes king of Zululand, on the death of his father Mpande | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud move together to Brussels, and then to London, where they live a dissolute bohemian existence | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking Glass, a second story of Alice's adventures | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The Gilded Age, by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, provides the familiar name for life in the US towards the end of the nineteenth century | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The British consul in Zanzibar persuades the sultan to end the island's notorious slave trade | |
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| 1873 |
| | | San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss receives a patent for denim jeans, soon to be known as Levi's | |
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| 1873 |
| | | US shoe salesman and YMCA member Dwight L. Moody launches into a new career as a revivalist preacher | |
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| 1873 |
| | | Verlaine is sentenced to two years in prison, at Mons in Belgium, after shooting and wounding Rimbaud in a drunken rage in Brussels | |
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| 1873 |
| | | Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian confederation, completing the first batch of Canada's provinces | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The North-West Mounted Police are formed, with the specific task of policing the wild Northwest Territories of Canada | |
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