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Events relating to england
Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure story, Treasure Island, features Long John Silver and Ben Gunn
English socialists, including Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb, found the Fabian Society as part of a long-term political strategy
A new Reform Act in Britain further reduces the financial threshold for voters in Britain, in effect extending the franchise to male workers in rural areas
Greenwich becomes accepted internationally as the prime meridian, or 0° longitude
The newly founded Fabian Society publishes Manifesto by George Bernard Shaw
US-born British inventor Hiram Maxim demonstrates the first prototype of his machine gun, using the recoil force to eject the spent cartridge and insert a new one
Oxford University Press publishes the A volume of its New English Dictionary, which will take 37 years to reach Z
Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights
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
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career
Gladstone becomes Britain's prime minister again, after joining forces with the Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government
Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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
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
Joseph Conrad becomes naturalized as a British subject and continues his career at sea in the far East
Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet
Queen Victoria's golden jubilee brings her back into the public's affection
A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee
Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs
William Lever builds Port Sunlight as a model village for workers in his Sunlight Soap factory
An undetected murderer, slitting the throats of seven London prostitutes, becomes known by the public as Jack the Ripper
English musicologist George Grove completes publication of his four-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea
The Fabian Society publishes Essays in Socialisman influential volume of essays edited by Bernard Shaw
The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell
