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1893
 
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The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language       
1893
 
    
Anton Dvorák's Ninth Symphony, subtitled 'From the New World', has its first performance in New York       
1893
 
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The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules      
1893
 
    
Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 6, known as the 'Pathetic' or Pathétique, has its premiere in St Petersburg       
1893
 
   
France incorporates Laos within French Indochina      
1893
 
   
Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky dies after a short illness, possibly from cholera or perhaps in sinister circumstances that remain the subject of controversy      
1893
 
    
Hansel and Gretl, an opera by German composer Engelbert Humperdinck, has its premiere in Weimar       
1894
 
    
Gladstone retires as Britain's prime minister and his place is taken by his foreign secretary, Lord Rosebery       
1894
 
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France and Russia, alarmed by Germany's ambitions, sign a defensive Franco-Russian alliance      
1894
 
    
French-born artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby       
George du Maurier, self-portrait, c.1879
National Portrait Gallery, London

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