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Oscar Wilde is sent to Reading Gaol to serve a two-year sentence with hard labour after being convicted of homosexuality
The British government takes responsibility for Kenya, as the East Africa Protectorate
Lenin is arrested in St Petersburg, along with other members of the Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class
Leander Jameson leads a disastrous raid into the Transvaal, in an attempt to topple Paul Kruger's government
H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701
Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London
A promenade concert, presented by Henry Wood in London's Queen's Hall, turns out to be the beginning of a very long tradition
Cecil Rhodes' involvement with the Jameson raid forces his resignation as the Cape Colony prime minister
Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème has an unsuccessful premiere in Turin
The Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II, inflicts a shattering defeat on Italian forces at Aduwa
French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers in uranium salt the phenomenon of natural radioactivity
Britain unites Buganda and three other kingdoms into the single Uganda Protectorate
The first modern Olympic Games, organized by Pierre de Coubertin, are held in Athens
Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki
Italy, one of the local colonial powers, accepts Ethiopia's claim to the Ogaden region of the Somali territory
English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad
Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow)
22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio
The Spanish governor in Cuba is recalled to Spain, for pioneering the concept of the concentration camp
Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal
Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State
English physicist Joseph John Thomson, working at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, discovers the existence of the electron
The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa
Germany claims Ruanda and Urundi as a joint colony adjacent to German East Africa
The French exile the queen of Madagascar and claim the island as a French colony
