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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Britain cedes the tiny island of Heligoland to Germany in return for vast areas of Africa | |
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| 1891 |
| | | A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Herman Melville dies in obscurity in New York, with an unpublished manuscript of Billy Budd (not printed till 1924) | |
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| 1891 |
| | | German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal achieves the first of many guided flights in a glider, from a hill near Potsdam | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Oscar Wilde publishes his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray in which the ever-youthful hero's portrait grows old and ugly | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Thomas Hardy publishes his novel Tess of the Durbervilles, with a dramatic finale at Stonehenge | |
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| 1891 |
| | | French artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti and stays in the Pacific islands for most of the rest of his life | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Ellis Island in New York Bay opens as the point of reception for arriving immigrants | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Frederick Lugard's Maxim machine gun settles a Protestant-Catholic clash in Kampala, the capital of Buganda | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Ohio Supreme Court rules that monopolistic practices by Rockefeller's oil company are illegal | |
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| 1892 |
| | | San Francisco businessmen found an organization to protect nature, the Sierra Club of California, a powerful environmental pressure group | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin, with Douglas Hyde as its first president | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, deals with the serious social problem of slum landlords | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Keir Hardie wins the London seat of West Ham, becoming the first Labour member of the House of Commons | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Gladstone, becoming prime minister for the fourth time, is described by the queen as 'an old, wild and incomprehensible man of eighty two and a half' | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The closing of the Homestead Steel Works near Pittsburgh in a dispute with unions leads to massive confrontation and violence | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Falkland Islands, by now occupied by some 2000 settlers, become a British colony | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first football pro when the Allegheny Athletic Association pay him $500 to play a game in their team | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Dvorák takes a job in New York as director of the National Conservatory, returning to Prague in 1895 | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Former president Grover Cleveland defeats incumbent president Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only US president to serve non-consecutive terms | |
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| 1892 |
| | | In a sensational trial in Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the charge of killing her father and stepmother with an axe | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Nutcracker, with choreography by Lev Ivanov to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Mr Pooter is the suburban anti-hero of the The Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Constantine Cavafy begins a 30-year career as a civil servant in Alexandria's Irrigation Service | |
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| c. 1892 |
| | | The French chef Auguste Escoffier creates and names a dessert in honour of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba | |
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| 1893 |
| | | An aluminium statue of Eros, by English sculptor Alfred Gilbert, is unveiled in Piccadilly Circus | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini has his first success when his opera Manon Lescaut opens in Turin | |
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