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The Statue of Liberty, by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, is assembled in Paris before being shipped across the Atlantic
German warships arrive in Zanzibar harbour to persuade the sultan to cede territory to the Kaiser, William I
Louis Pasteur uses rabies inoculation to save the life of 9-year-old Joseph Meister, bitten by a rabid dog
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career
Leaving his family in Copenhagen, French artist Paul Gauguin returns to Paris to paint full-time
French painter Georges Seurat develops the dotted style of impressionism that becomes known as Pointillism
Gladstone becomes Britain's prime minister again, after joining forces with the Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government
Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris
Gladstone's bill promising Home Rule for Ireland splits the Liberal party in Britain's House of Commons
Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The split in the Liberal party over Home Rule results in a defeat for Gladstone and the return of Lord Salisbury as Britain's prime minister
The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause
Germany and Britain define neighbouring spheres of interest in east Africa
The German and British agreement in east Africa creates the present-day boundary between Tanzania and Kenya
Thomas Hardy publishes his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, which begins with the future mayor, Michael Henchard selling his wife and child at a fair
Joseph Conrad becomes naturalized as a British subject and continues his career at sea in the far East
Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists
Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet
Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov)
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello has its premeiere at La Scala in Milan
Lenin's elder brother Alexander, while still a student, is executed for his part in a plot to assassinate the tsar, Alexander III
Queen Victoria's golden jubilee brings her back into the public's affection
The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao
A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee
Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs
