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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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| 1886 |
| | | The Crofters' Holdings Act provides security of tenure and other safeguards for Highland crofters in Scotland | |
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| 1886 |
| | | German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine | |
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| 1889 |
| | | A collapsing dam sends 40 feet of water through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2000 people | |
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| 1889 |
| | | US reformer Jane Addams sets up Hull House as a neighbourhood social centre in a deprived area of Chicago | |
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| 1890 |
| | | The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell | |
|  | A carriage on the first 'tube'
London's Transport Museum
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| c. 1892 |
| | | The French chef Auguste Escoffier creates and names a dessert in honour of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba | |
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| 1893 |
| | | The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language | |
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| 1896 |
| | | US engineer Henry Ford test drives his first four-wheel internal-combustion vehicle, the Quadricycle, built in a coal shed behind his home | |
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