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| 1875 |
| | | US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire | |
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| 1875 |
| | | An agreement is signed between France and Britain to cooperate in the construction of a tunnel beneath the Channel | |
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| 1875 |
| | | An outbreak of measles in Fiji, brought to the islands by British visitors, kills a quarter of the population | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Henry James's early novel Roderick Hudson is serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and is published in book form in 1876 | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell makes the first practical use of his telephone, summoning his assistant from another room with the words 'Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.' | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Turkish irregular soldiers, the ferocious bashibazouks, massacre some 15,000 Bulgarian civilians | |
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| 1876 |
| | | George Custer leads a US cavalry attack on the Sioux at the Little Bighorn river, with disastrous results | |
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| 1876 |
| | | The chaotic government finances of Egypt are placed under joint French and British control | |
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| 1876 |
| | | William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month | |
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