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Development and commercial production of electric lighting
Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach
First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
First steel frame construction "sky-scrapers"
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Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect
Michelson-Morley experiment, showing that the speed of light is invariant
James-Lange theory of emotion
War, peace and politics
First Boer War
The New Imperialism
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Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami
About 300,000 Swedes emigrate to the United States
People
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Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
Guangxu Emperor (China)
Emperor Wilhelm I (Germany)
Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany)
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Germany)
King Umberto I (Italy)
Pope Leo XIII
Emperor Meiji (Japan)
Emperor Alexander II (Russia)
Emperor Alexander III (Russia)
Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom)
Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom)
President Rutherford B. Hayes (United States)
President Chester A. Arthur (United States)
President Grover Cleveland (United States)
Category:1880s
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