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| 1881 |
| | | London's new Savoy Theatre is the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The British withdraw from Afghanistan, having achieved nothing in the Second Anglo-Afghan War | |
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| 1881 |
| | | P.T. Barnum and his main rival James Bailey merge their enterprises to form America's leading circus | |
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| 1881 |
| | | US president James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at a Washington railway station, and dies two months later | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Stanley finds Brazza's French tricolor already flying on the north bank of the Congo, on the site of what later becomes Brazzaville | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady studies an American girl, Isabel Archer, in the unfamiliar context of Europe | |
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| 1881 |
| | | Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves | |
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| 1881 |
| | | On the death of James Garfield, he is succeeded as US president by vice-president Chester A. Arthur | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The Aesthetic Movement and 'art for art's sake', attitudes personified above all by Whistler and Wilde, are widely mocked and satirized in Britain | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership | |
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