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Events relating to america
US president James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at a Washington railway station, and dies two months later
Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady studies an American girl, Isabel Archer, in the unfamiliar context of Europe
Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves
On the death of James Garfield, he is succeeded as US president by vice-president Chester A. Arthur
The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership
Jesse James allows into his home a new gang member, working secretly for the police, who shoots him in the back
Congress passes a Chinese Exclusion Act, in the USA's first retreat from the policy of welcoming all immigrants
Ulises Heureaux becomes dictator of the Dominican Republic and retains power until assassinated in 1899
Jumbo, the 'world's largest elephant', becomes the star attraction of Barnum and Bailey's touring circus
Following Lady Waldegrave's death in 1879, the Strawberry Hill estate is sold first to an American hotel company and then on, in 1883 to Baron de Stern.
Harvard graduates J.A. Mitchell and E.S. Martin establish Life magazine as a new satirical weekly
The Supreme Court declares illegal the 1875 Civil Rights Act against segregation, thus enabling the southern states to pass racist laws
Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World and builds circulation with sensational news and campaigns
Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is opened between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan
Mark Twain's autobiographical book Life on the Mississippi details his own personal involvement with the great river
William Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, celebrates the world of the cowboy in his immensely successful Wild West Show
The War of the Pacific brings Chile new mineral wealth at the expense of Bolivia and Peru
US entrepreneur James 'Buck' Duke wins exclusive rights in a machine that can manufacture 100,000 cigarettes a day
Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer continue their exploits on the Mississippi in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Costa Rica grants a 99-year lease on 800,000 acres to Minor C. Keith, the American founder of the United Fruit Company
Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland wins the US presidental election, defeating Republican James G. Blaine
In his novel The Rise of Silas Lapham US author William Dean Howells follows the fortunes of a self-made man in Boston
The name Coca-Cola is registered by John S. Pemberton in America for a drink of cocaine, cola nuts and citrus juices
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career
US author Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes Little Lord Fauntleroy, featuring an aristocratic child in a velvet suit
