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1881
 
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France invades Tunisia from Algeria, and in the Treaty of Bardo forces the bey of Tunis to accept the status of a French protectorate        
1881
 
    
In Washington Square Henry James tells the sad story of heiress Catherine Sloper       
1881
 
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The Tynwald in the Isle of Man becomes the first parliament to give women the vote       
1881
 
    
Joel Chandler Harris publishes Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, the first of many Uncle Remus volumes       
1881
 
   
London's new Savoy Theatre is the first public building in the world to be lit throughout by electricity      
1881
 
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The British withdraw from Afghanistan, having achieved nothing in the Second Anglo-Afghan War      
1881
 
     
P.T. Barnum and his main rival James Bailey merge their enterprises to form America's leading circus        
1881
 
    
US president James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau at a Washington railway station, and dies two months later       
1881
 
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Stanley finds Brazza's French tricolor already flying on the north bank of the Congo, on the site of what later becomes Brazzaville        
1881
 
    
Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady studies an American girl, Isabel Archer, in the unfamiliar context of Europe