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Alexander Graham Bell makes the first practical use of his telephone, summoning his assistant from another room with the words 'Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.'
Turkish irregular soldiers, the ferocious bashibazouks, massacre some 15,000 Bulgarian civilians
George Custer leads a US cavalry attack on the Sioux at the Little Bighorn river, with disastrous results
New pews are installed in St John's and the second pulpit is removed
The chaotic government finances of Egypt are placed under joint French and British control
William Gladstone's pamphlet Bulgarian Horrors, protesting at massacre by the Turks, sells 200,000 copies within a month
Stanley passes Nyangwe on the Lualaba, the furthest point down the Congo river system reached by Livingstone
Henry James moves to London, which remains his home for the next 22 years
India becomes the 'jewel in the crown' of Queen Victoria when Benjamin Disraeli secures for her the title Empress of India
In 21 years Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has grown from 12 poems to the two volumes of the sixth edition, published in the USA's centenary year
The US inventor Thomas Edison opens an experimental laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, calling it his 'invention factory'
Scottish missionaries establish Blantyre (named after Livingstone's birthplace) as a centre from which to fight slavery
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his new invention, the telephone, at the US Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia
Susan B. Anthony presents a Woman's Declaration of Rights at the US centennial Fourth of July celebrations
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins develops a new verse form that he calls 'sprung rhythm'
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Tom and his friends find excitement in a small town on the Mississippi
Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky begins an intense correspondence with a wealthy patron, Nadezhda von Meck
Richard Wagner's sequence of four operas, The Ring of the Nibelungen, has its first complete performance at Bayreuth
George Eliot publishes Daniel Deronda, contrasting Jewish idealism with upper-class English materialism
English cricketer W.G. Grace scores a record 344 runs, playing for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Kent at Canterbury
After a failed bank hold-up in Northfield, Minnesota, the whole of the James gang is killed except Jesse and his brother Frank
Lewis Carroll publishes The Hunting of the Snark, a poem about a voyage in search of an elusive mythical creature
Leopold II hosts a conference in Brussels on the subject of opening up the African continent
Johannes Brahms' first symphony has its premiere in Karlsruhe
Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes defeats Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in a US presidential election of which the result is strongly disputed
