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| 1871 |
| | | A fire in Chicago destroys a third of the city, to be followed by an extremely rapid and successful period of reconstruction | |
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| 1872 |
| | | The US Congress establishes Yellowstone, with its famous geysers, as the world's first national park | |
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| 1873 |
| | | San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss receives a patent for denim jeans, soon to be known as Levi's | |
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| 1878 |
| | | A disagreement between families on the West Virginia and Kentucky border flares up and eventually claims a dozen lives | |
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| 1879 |
| | | An entire train, full of passengers, falls into the river Tay in Scotland when a bridge collapses in a winter gale | |
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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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| 1883 |
| | | Lord Napier heads a Royal Commission to look into the condition of crofters after the Battle of the Braes in Skye | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Eruption of the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa sends six cubic miles of debris into the atmosphere and causes a huge tsunami | |
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| 1885 |
| | | German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile | |
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| c. 1885 |
| | | Bismarck pioneers in Germany state welfare policies such as sickness benefits and old-age pensions | |
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