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| 1875 |
| | | Henry James's early novel Roderick Hudson is serialized in the Atlantic Monthly and is published in book form in 1876 | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell makes the first practical use of his telephone, summoning his assistant from another room with the words 'Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.' | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Turkish irregular soldiers, the ferocious bashibazouks, massacre some 15,000 Bulgarian civilians | |
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| 1876 |
| | | George Custer leads a US cavalry attack on the Sioux at the Little Bighorn river, with disastrous results | |
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| 1876 |
| | | The chaotic government finances of Egypt are placed under joint French and British control | |
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| 1876 |
| | | William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Stanley passes Nyangwe on the Lualaba, the furthest point down the Congo river system reached by Livingstone | |
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| 1876 |
| | | Henry James moves to London, which remains his home for the next 22 years | |
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| 1876 |
| | | India becomes the 'jewel in the crown' of Queen Victoria when Benjamin Disraeli secures for her the title Empress of India | |
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| 1876 |
| | | In 21 years Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has grown from 12 poems to the two volumes of the sixth edition, published in the USA's centenary year | |
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