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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Britain cedes the tiny island of Heligoland to Germany in return for vast areas of Africa | |
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| 1891 |
| | | A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Herman Melville dies in obscurity in New York, with an unpublished manuscript of Billy Budd (not printed till 1924) | |
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| 1891 |
| | | German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal achieves the first of many guided flights in a glider, from a hill near Potsdam | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in which the ever-youthful hero's portrait grows old and ugly | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Thomas Hardy publishes his novel Tess of the Durbervilles, with a dramatic finale at Stonehenge | |
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| 1891 |
| | | French artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti and stays in the Pacific islands for most of the rest of his life | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Ellis Island in New York Bay opens as the point of reception for arriving immigrants | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Frederick Lugard's Maxim machine gun settles a Protestant-Catholic clash in Kampala, the capital of Buganda | |
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