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| 1887 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello has its premeiere at La Scala in Milan | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A German physiologist, Adolf Fick, grinds a pair of lenses to fit snugly in contact with a patient's eyeballs | |
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| 1887 |
| | | To put an end to the Boer republic in Zululand, the British annexe the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A chancel is added at the east end of St Mary's Church to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queeen Victoria | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Lenin's elder brother Alexander, while still a student, is executed for his part in a plot to assassinate the tsar, Alexander III | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Queen Victoria's golden jubilee brings her back into the public's affection | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao | |
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| 1887 |
| | | A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The US Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act, an early attempt to avoid the excesses of unrestrained capitalism | |
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| 1887 |
| | | Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs | |
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