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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's most brilliant comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest is performed in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates the element helium | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde loses a libel case that he has brought against the marquess of Queensberry for describing him as a sodomite | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Lord Rosebery's Liberal government suffers a defeat in the House of Commons, and Lord Salisbury returns as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Oscar Wilde is sent to Reading Gaol to serve a two-year sentence with hard labour after being convicted of homosexuality | |
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| 1895 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701 | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London | |
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| 1895 |
| | | A promenade concert, presented by Henry Wood in London's Queen's Hall, turns out to be the beginning of a very long tradition | |
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| 1896 |
| | | English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad | |
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| 1896 |
| | | 22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio | |
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