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| 1888 |
| | | The Imperial British East Africa Company is given a charter to adminster Kenya and Uganda | |
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| c. 1888 |
| | | An American Indian visionary, Wovoka, launches a new religion that will bring the dead back to life, calling it the Ghost Dance | |
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| 1888 |
| | | Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison wins the US presidential election, defeating the incumbent president Grover Cleveland | |
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| 1888 |
| | | An undetected murderer, slitting the throats of seven London prostitutes, becomes known by the public as Jack the Ripper | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The first Land Run into Oklahoma has settlers galloping in from noon to claim territory previously reserved for American Indians | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Menelik II is crowned emperor in Ethiopia, bringing the crown back to the Solomon dynasty | |
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| 1889 |
| | | 23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Vincent van Gogh enters a psychiatric asylum in St Rémy as a voluntary patient | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The Second International is established by the Socialist parties of ten nations, meeting at a congress in Paris | |
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