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| 1887 |
| | | Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs | |
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| 1887 |
| | | January blizzard and summer drought bring to an end ten years of agricultural boom in the US midwest, prompting a new slogan – 'In Kansas we busted' | |
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| 1887 |
| | | France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The Dawes Severalty Act deprives American Indians of their tribal lands, giving each instead an allotment of up to 160 acres | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Anne Sullivan works with the deaf and blind 7-year-old Helen Keller, in a relationship that will last nearly half a century | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels | |
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| 1888 |
| | | Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France | |
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| 1888 |
| | | The emperor Pedro II frees all the remaining slaves in Brazil without compensating their owners | |
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| 1888 |
| | | William Lever builds Port Sunlight as a model village for workers in his Sunlight Soap factory | |
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| 1888 |
| | | The Ndebele chieftain, Lobengula, grants Rhodes mining rights in what is now Zimbabwe | |
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