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| 1886 |
| | | German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Thomas Hardy publishes his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, which begins with the future mayor, Michael Henchard selling his wife and child at a fair | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Joseph Conrad becomes naturalized as a British subject and continues his career at sea in the far East | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov) | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello has its premeiere at La Scala in Milan | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A German physiologist, Adolf Fick, grinds a pair of lenses to fit snugly in contact with a patient's eyeballs | |
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| 1887 |
| | | To put an end to the Boer republic in Zululand, the British annexe the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Lenin's elder brother Alexander, while still a student, is executed for his part in a plot to assassinate the tsar, Alexander III | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Queen Victoria's golden jubilee brings her back into the public's affection | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The US Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act, an early attempt to avoid the excesses of unrestrained capitalism | |
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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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| 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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