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| 1880 |
| | | French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza forestalls Stanley in opening up the Congo, reaching Stanley Pool ahead of him | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Russian composer Alexander Borodin writes In the Steppes of Central Asia as part of the silver jubilee celebrations for Alexander II | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Dostoevsky publishes his novel The Brothers Karamazov, featuring the four sons of the depraved Feodor Pavlovich Karamazov | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Johannes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture is performed first at Breslau university, which has conferred on him an honorary Ph.D. | |
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| 1880 |
| | | US author Lew Wallace publishes a historical novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Republican candidate James Abram Garfield defeats Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock in the US presidential election | |
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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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