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| 1886 |
| | | German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Thomas Hardy publishes his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, which begins with the future mayor, Michael Henchard selling his wife and child at a fair | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Joseph Conrad becomes naturalized as a British subject and continues his career at sea in the far East | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov) | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello has its premeiere at La Scala in Milan | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A German physiologist, Adolf Fick, grinds a pair of lenses to fit snugly in contact with a patient's eyeballs | |
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| 1887 |
| | | To put an end to the Boer republic in Zululand, the British annexe the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Lenin's elder brother Alexander, while still a student, is executed for his part in a plot to assassinate the tsar, Alexander III | |
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