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British prime minister William Gladstone introduces a bill to disestablish the Anglican church in Ireland
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads meet at Promontory Summit in Utah, completing the first transcontinental line
The territory of the Hudson's Bay Company is transferred to the new state of Canada
Extensive acquisition of neighbouring properties gives the Mortlake brewery a huge river frontage, and the success of the enterprise is commemorated in the façade of a new building
Britain, France and Italy take joint control of the finances of a bankrupt Tunisia
The proprietor of the New York Herald gives Henry Morton Stanley a very concise commission – 'Find Livingstone'
Das Rheingold, with its premiere in Munich, is the first part of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle to be staged
British explorer Samuel Baker annexes the southern Sudan, or Equatoria, on behalf of the khedive of Egypt
Thousands of distinguished guests assemble at Port Said for the opening of the Suez Canal
The most famous of the three-masted tea-clippers, the Cutty Sark is launched at Dumbarton for service to and from China
Young French artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir paint together in the open air at La Grenouillère, developing the Impressionist style
French part-time painter Henri Rousseau becomes known as Douanier ('customs officer') Rousseau because of his paid employment
John D. Rockefeller and his partners establish the Standard Oil Company of Ohio
Coppélia, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon to music by Delibes, has its premiere at the Paris Opera
Otto von Bismarck adjusts the Prussian king's telegram from Ems in a way calculated to provoke the French
Pope Pius IX, rapidly losing temporal authority, declares a new dogma – that the pope, when speaking from the throne, is infallible on matters of faith or morals
The Star and Garter hotel is destroyed by fire, then rebuilt to a design of Charles John Phipps
The Turkish sultan finally allows the Christians of Bulgaria to have their own Orthodox patriarch
With public opinion in France outraged by the Ems telegram, the French government declares war on Prussia
16-year-old Arthur Rimbaud sends some of his poems to Paul Verlaine, already an established poet
Adelaide and Darwin are linked across the entire Australian continent by the Overland Telegraph Line
The Red River rebellion in Winnipeg (1869) prompts the creation of Manitoba as a province of Canada
French artist Claude Monet, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War, arrives in London
Isaac Butt, an Irish MP at Westminster, founds the Home Rule association
Napoleon III is among 83,000 French prisoners captured by the Germans at Sedan in the Franco-Prussian war
