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| 1880 December |
| | | George Eliot and her new husband move into a splendid new house in Cheyne Walk, beside the Thames in London | |
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| 1880 December |
| | | George Eliot dies, of a long-standing kidney disease, and a week later is buried beside G.H. Lewes in Highgate cemetery | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Boston lawyer Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr publishes a legal study that becomes a classic text, The Common Law | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The Boers inflict a convincing defeat on a British army at Majuba, in the Transvaal | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The first pogroms, or officially sanctioned attacks on Jews and their property, take place in Russia | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Russia's reforming tsar, Alexander II, is killed by hand-made grenades thrown at his carriage in St Petersburg | |
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| 1881 |
| | | France invades Tunisia from Algeria, and in the Treaty of Bardo forces the bey of Tunis to accept the status of a French protectorate | |
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| 1881 |
| | | In Washington Square Henry James tells the sad story of heiress Catherine Sloper | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The Tynwald in the Isle of Man becomes the first parliament to give women the vote | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Joel Chandler Harris publishes Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, the first of many Uncle Remus volumes | |
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