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| 1884 |
| | | Bismarck invites the European powers to a West Africa Conference in Berlin | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Spain begins to colonize the Western Sahara, subsequently known as the Spanish Sahara | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland wins the US presidental election, defeating Republican James G. Blaine | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Botha and his Boer followers are rewarded by Dinizulu with a large tract of land, in which they establish their own Boer republic | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z | |
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| 1885 |
| | | In his novel The Rise of Silas Lapham US author William Dean Howells follows the fortunes of a self-made man in Boston | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Bismarck grants Karl Peters a charter to rule a German protectorate in east Africa | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Britain annexes Bechuanaland as a protectorate, to secure the route north from the Cape into central Africa | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights | |
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| c. 1885 |
| | | Bismarck pioneers in Germany state welfare policies such as sickness benefits and old-age pensions | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Italian troops occupy Eritrea, a province of Ethiopia | |
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| 1885 |
| | | A secret revolutionary group (Union and Progress, later known as the Young Turks) is formed in Salonika in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Gladstone resigns as British prime minister, after a defeat on the budget, and is followed by a minority government headed by Conservative leader Lord Salisbury | |
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| 1885 |
| | | The name Coca-Cola is registered by John S. Pemberton in America for a drink of cocaine, cola nuts and citrus juices | |
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| 1885 |
| | | The Statue of Liberty, by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, is assembled in Paris before being shipped across the Atlantic | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German warships arrive in Zanzibar harbour to persuade the sultan to cede territory to the Kaiser, William I | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Louis Pasteur uses rabies inoculation to save the life of 9-year-old Joseph Meister, bitten by a rabid dog | |
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Wellcome Library, London
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| 1885 |
| | | The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career | |
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| 1885 |
| | | Leaving his family in Copenhagen, French artist Paul Gauguin returns to Paris to paint full-time | |
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| c. 1885 |
| | | French painter Georges Seurat develops the dotted style of impressionism that becomes known as Pointillism | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Gladstone becomes Britain's prime minister again, after joining forces with the Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Addis Ababa is founded, to become subsequently the capital of Ethiopia | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Gladstone's bill promising Home Rule for Ireland splits the Liberal party in Britain's House of Commons | |
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| 1886 |
| | | US author Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes Little Lord Fauntleroy, featuring an aristocratic child in a velvet suit | |
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| 1886 |
| | | In the Haymarket Affair a demonstration in Chicago against police brutality results in deaths and subsequent executions | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The American Federation of Labor, with Samuel Gompers as its first president, is formed as an umbrella organization to represent all unions | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The split in the Liberal party over Home Rule results in a defeat for Gladstone and the return of Lord Salisbury as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Crofters' Holdings Act provides security of tenure and other safeguards for Highland crofters in Scotland | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Germany and Britain define neighbouring spheres of interest in east Africa | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The German and British agreement in east Africa creates the present-day boundary between Tanzania and Kenya | |
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