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| 1886 |
| | | The Crofters' Holdings Act provides security of tenure and other safeguards for Highland crofters in Scotland | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Germany and Britain define neighbouring spheres of interest in east Africa | |
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| 1886 |
| | | The German and British agreement in east Africa creates the present-day boundary between Tanzania and Kenya | |
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| 1886 |
| | | German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine | |
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| 1886 |
| | | 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 | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Joseph Conrad becomes naturalized as a British subject and continues his career at sea in the far East | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov) | |
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