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Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves
On the death of James Garfield, he is succeeded as US president by vice-president Chester A. Arthur
The Aesthetic Movement and 'art for art's sake', attitudes personified above all by Whistler and Wilde, are widely mocked and satirized in Britain
The Chicago architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan set up a partnership
Eadweard Muybridge projects slow-motion images of a trotting horse as a demonstration at London's Royal Institution
German bacteriologist Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacillus that causes tuberculosis
Walther Flemming publishes the results of his researches into cell division and the discovery of chromosomes (named later), in effect founding the discipline of cytogenetics
Jesse James allows into his home a new gang member, working secretly for the police, who shoots him in the back
Congress passes a Chinese Exclusion Act, in the USA's first retreat from the policy of welcoming all immigrants
Stanley establishes a foothold for Leopold II on the southern bank of the Congo, at a site which he names Leopoldville (now Kinshasa)
Irish chief secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish and a colleague are assassinated in Phoenix Park in Dublin
The first settlements of European Jews, returning to the promised land, are established in Palestine
Italy, previously non-aligned, signs a Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary
Anti-western riots in Alexandria result in many deaths and provoke a British invasion
Ulises Heureaux becomes dictator of the Dominican Republic and retains power until assassinated in 1899
When Australia win the second Test match, in London, the Sporting Times declares that they will take home with them 'the ashes of English cricket'
Jumbo, the 'world's largest elephant', becomes the star attraction of Barnum and Bailey's touring circus
Orleans House is bought by the Cunard family who are the last private owners.
Following Lady Waldegrave's death in 1879, the Strawberry Hill estate is sold first to an American hotel company and then on, in 1883 to Baron de Stern.
The British reinstate Cetshwayo as Zulu king, but over a much smaller territory
Harvard graduates J.A. Mitchell and E.S. Martin establish Life magazine as a new satirical weekly
The Supreme Court declares illegal the 1875 Civil Rights Act against segregation, thus enabling the southern states to pass racist laws
Joseph Pulitzer buys the New York World and builds circulation with sensational news and campaigns
Brooklyn Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, is opened between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan
Lord Napier heads a Royal Commission to look into the condition of crofters after the Battle of the Braes in Skye
