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France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels
Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France
The Ndebele chieftain, Lobengula, grants Rhodes mining rights in what is now Zimbabwe
The Imperial British East Africa Company is given a charter to adminster Kenya and Uganda
An undetected murderer, slitting the throats of seven London prostitutes, becomes known by the public as Jack the Ripper
Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north
23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin
Vincent van Gogh enters a psychiatric asylum in St Rémy as a voluntary patient
The Second International is established by the Socialist parties of ten nations, meeting at a congress in Paris
France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa
English musicologist George Grove completes publication of his four-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians
In the treaty of Uccialli, Menelik II cedes the Ethiopian province of Eritrea to Italy
Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea
The Fabian Society publishes Essays in Socialisman influential volume of essays edited by Bernard Shaw
Sleeping Beauty, with choreography by Petipa to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg
A vast cantilever bridge, spanning a mile of water, carries the railway across the Firth of Forth in Scotland
Cecil Rhodes sends colonists to settle the newly won colony of Rhodesia
Zanzibar, under its Arab sultan, is declared a British protectorate
Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany)
The world's first electric underground railway passes under the Thames, linking the City of London and Stockwell
Scottish anthropologist James Frazer publishes The Golden Bough, a massive compilation of contemporary knowledge about ritual and religious custom
9-year-old Daisy Ashford imagines an adult romance and high society in The Young Visiters
Germany takes direct control of German East Africa as a protectorate
Rhodes wins the right to adminster the region from the Zambezi up to Lake Tanganyika, forming present-day Zambia
