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| 1884 |
| | | Dinizulu, son of Cetshwayo, employs Boer mercenaries led by Louis Botha to drive his father's enemy, Zibhebhu, from the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The War of the Pacific brings Chile new mineral wealth at the expense of Bolivia and Peru | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Verlaine publishes Les Poètes maudits, short studies of various 'cursed poets' – including Rimbaud | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Karl Peters hurries round east Africa persuading chiefs to accept the German emperor as their protector | |
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| 1884 |
| | | US entrepreneur James 'Buck' Duke wins exclusive rights in a machine that can manufacture 100,000 cigarettes a day | |
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| 1884 |
| | | German mathematician Gottlob Frege publishes Grundlagen der Arithmetik ('Foundations of Arithmetic'), linking mathematics and logic | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer continue their exploits on the Mississippi in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Costa Rica grants a 99-year lease on 800,000 acres to Minor C. Keith, the American founder of the United Fruit Company | |
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| 1884 |
| | | British general Garnet Wolseley sails from London on a mission to rescue Gordon, trapped by the Mahdi in Khartoum | |
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| 1884 |
| | | US-born British inventor Hiram Maxim demonstrates the first prototype of his machine gun, using the recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert a new one | |
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