• 1875  Kwang Hsu, emperor of China
     Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
     "Trial by Jury" by Gilbert & Sullivan, their
     first operetta
     Japenese legal system reformed
  • 1876  Korea became independent nation
     Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
     J.J.R.Macleod discovered insulin
     Heinrich Schliemann excavated Mycenae
     US National Baseball League founded
  • 1877  Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President
     Edison invented the phonograph
     1st public telephones placed in US
  • 1878  Humbert I, king of Italy
     Thomas Hardy: "The Return of the Native"
     Leo XIII, named Pope
     Cleopatra's Needle moved to London
     Gilbert & Sullivan: "H.M.S. Pinafore"
     David Hughes invented microscope
     A.A.Pope manufactured first bicycles in US
  • 1879  British/Zulu War
     Ibsen: "A Doll's House
     Rodin: "John the Baptist" (sculpture)
  • 1880  J.C.Harris: "Uncle Remus"
     Lew Wallace: "Ben Hur"
     Cézanne: "Chateau de Medan"
     Renoir: "Place Clinchy"
     Rodin: "The Thinker"
     Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Pirates of Penzance"
     Pasteur discovered a chicken cholera vaccine
     Edison & JW Swan each devised elecric lights
     game of BINGO is developed
     Andrew Carnegie developed 1st large steel furnace
     canned fruits & meats 1st appeared in stores
  • 1881  James A. Garfield, 20th US President, assassinated
     Chester Arthur, 21st US President
     vatican archives opened to scholars
     Monet: "Sunshine and Snow"
     Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T.
     Washington
     freedom of press for France
  • 1882  US banned Chinese immigrations
     3-mile limits for international waters agreed upon
     Robert Lewis Stevenson: "Trasure Island"
     Cézanne: "Self Portrait"
     Debussy: "Le Printemps"
  • 1883  Benito Mussolini born
     Renoir: "Umbrellas"
     New York Metropolitan Opera House opened
     1st 10-story skyscraper built
  • 1884  Mark Twain: "Huckleberry Finn
  • 1885  Grover Cleveland, 22nd US President
     Tolstoi: "The Power of Darkness"
     Mormon church split
     Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Mikado"
     Strauss: "The Gypsy Baron"
     Pasteur made a rabies vaccine
     George Eastman made coated photographic paper
  • 1886  Henry James: "The Bostonians"
     Stevenson: "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde"
     Statue of Liberty dedicated
     Rodin: "The Kiss"
     American Federation of Labor founded
  • 1887  Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee
     Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "A Study in Scarlet",
     1st of Sherlock Holmes stories
     Verdi: "Otello"
  • 1888  William II, emperor of Germany (known as the
     "Kaiser")
     Eastman perfected "Kodak" box camera
     JB Dunlop developed pnuematic tire
     "Jack the Ripper" murdered 6 women in London
  • 1889  Benjamin Harrison, 23rd US President
     Alexander Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower
     punch card system developed by H. Hollerith
  • 1890  Oscar Wilde: "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
     rubber gloves 1st used in surgery
     global influenza epidemic
     Daughters of the American Revolution founded
  • 1891  James Barrie: "The Little Minister"
     Conan Doyle: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
     Thomas Hardy: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
     Gauguin settled in Tahiti
     Henri Toulouse-Letrec painted 1st music hall posters
     Japanese earthquake killed 10,000 people
     Eugéne Dubois discovered "Java Man"
  • 1892  Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt
     Toulouse-Letrec: "At the Moulin Rouge"
     Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker"
     1st cans of pineapples
  • 1893  "Art Nouveau" appeared in Europe
     Karl Benz constructed his 4-wheel car
     Henry Ford produced his 1st car
  • 1894  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
     Louis Lumiere invented the cinematograph
     plague bacillus discovered by both Yersin & Kitasato
     Baron de Coubertin founded modern Olympic Games
  • 1895  end of Chinese/Japanese war
     H.G.Wells: "The Time Machine"
     Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake" ballet
     Wilhelm Rontgen discovered x-rays
     Marconi invented radio telegraphy
     Auguste & Louis Lumiere invented a motion
     picture camera
  • 1896  Russia & China signed Manchuria Convention
     Nobel Prizes established
     Puccini: "La Boheme"
     Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant opened
     1st modern Olympic Games held in Athens
  • 1897  William McKinley, 25th US President
     Kipling: "Captains Courageous"
     H.G.Wells: "The Invisible Man"
     Edmond Rostand: "Cyrano de Bergerac"
     Shaw: "Candida"
  • 1898  US declared war on Spain over Cuba
     H.G.Wells: "The War of the Worlds"
     Shiga discovered dysentery bacteria
     Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin built 1st airship
     photographs using artificial light 1st taken
  • 1899  Philippines demanded independence from US
     Rutherford discovered alpha & beta rays
     1st magnetic sound recording

  • Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone.

    Auguste Rodin was one of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century.

    Andrew Carnegie was a dominant figure in the U.S. steel industry.

    George Eastman developed an improved process for making photographic plates.

    Arthur Conan Doyle was an English novelist who is widely known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes.

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was known above all for his aphoristic wit, the Irish writer.

    Guglielmo Marconi is known as the father of wireless.

    Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, and industrialist.

    Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a literary giant in his own time.




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