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| 1871 |
| | | Stanley, finding Livingstone at Ujiji, greets him with four words which become famous – 'Dr Livingstone, I presume' | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, is commissioned for the Cairo opera house, part of the process of Egypt becoming westernized | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Italian US immigrant Antonio Meucci files a patent in New York for the invention of the telephone | |
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| 1871 |
| | | George Eliot publishes Middlemarch, in which Dorothea makes a disastrous marriage to the pedantic Edward Casaubon | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Whistler begins to paint his Nocturnes, a revolutionary series of night-time images on the river Thames | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Ballot Act adds to the British electoral system the essential element of secrecy in voting | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The US Congress establishes Yellowstone, with its famous geysers, as the world's first national park | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin splits the International Congress into rival camps at its meeting in the Hague | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad cuts through the territory reserved for American Indians, bringing hordes of 'boomers' | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Pragmatism emerges as a philosophical approach in meetings of the Metaphysical Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Cetshwayo becomes king of Zululand, on the death of his father Mpande | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud move together to Brussels, and then to London, where they live a dissolute bohemian existence | |
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| 1872 |
| | | Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking Glass, a second story of Alice's adventures | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The Gilded Age, by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, provides the familiar name for life in the US towards the end of the nineteenth century | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The British consul in Zanzibar persuades the sultan to end the island's notorious slave trade | |
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| 1873 |
| | | San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss receives a patent for denim jeans, soon to be known as Levi's | |
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| 1873 |
| | | US shoe salesman and YMCA member Dwight L. Moody launches into a new career as a revivalist preacher | |
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| 1873 |
| | | Verlaine is sentenced to two years in prison, at Mons in Belgium, after shooting and wounding Rimbaud in a drunken rage in Brussels | |
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| 1873 |
| | | Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian confederation, completing the first batch of Canada's provinces | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The North-West Mounted Police are formed, with the specific task of policing the wild Northwest Territories of Canada | |
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| 1873 |
| | | St Nicholas, a monthly magazine of high literary quality for children, is launched in the USA | |
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| c. 1873 |
| | | French painter Edgar Degas finds inspiration in the onstage and backstage world of ballet dancers | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Johann Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus has its premiere in Vienna | |
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| 1874 |
| | | A group of French artists, including Renoir, Monet and Degas, exhibit their work independently in the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar | |
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| 1874 |
| | | French critic Louis Leroy uses the term 'impressionism' to ridicule Monet's Impression, Sunrise, and unwittingly names a movement | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli, at the age of 70, begins a 6-year term of office as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Major Walter Wingfield secures a patent for Sphairistike, a game he has developed at his home in Wales, from which lawn tennis evolves | |
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| 1874 |
| | | The southern region of present-day Ghana becomes a British colony, to be known as the Gold Coast | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Stanley sets off from Bagamoyo, intending to resume the exploration of central Africa where Livingstone left off | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Mussorgsky composes Pictures at an Exhibition as a piece for piano in memory of an exhibition by the Russian painter Victor Hartmann | |
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| 1874 |
| | | English author Thomas Hardy has his first success with his novel Far from the Madding Crowd | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg | |
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| 1875 |
| | | The return to Spain of Isabella's son, as Alfonso XII, offers an end to forty years of royal feuding | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Georges Bizet's opera Carmen has its premiere in Paris and meets at first with a lukewarm response | |
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