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Gladstone resigns as British prime minister, after a defeat on the budget, and is followed by a minority government headed by Conservative leader Lord Salisbury
The name Coca-Cola is registered by John S. Pemberton in America for a drink of cocaine, cola nuts and citrus juices
The Statue of Liberty, by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, is assembled in Paris before being shipped across the Atlantic
German warships arrive in Zanzibar harbour to persuade the sultan to cede territory to the Kaiser, William I
Louis Pasteur uses rabies inoculation to save the life of 9-year-old Joseph Meister, bitten by a rabid dog
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career
Leaving his family in Copenhagen, French artist Paul Gauguin returns to Paris to paint full-time
French painter Georges Seurat develops the dotted style of impressionism that becomes known as Pointillism
Gladstone becomes Britain's prime minister again, after joining forces with the Irish Nationalists to defeat Lord Salisbury's government
Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris
Addis Ababa is founded, to become subsequently the capital of Ethiopia
Gladstone's bill promising Home Rule for Ireland splits the Liberal party in Britain's House of Commons
US author Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes Little Lord Fauntleroy, featuring an aristocratic child in a velvet suit
In the Haymarket Affair a demonstration in Chicago against police brutality results in deaths and subsequent executions
The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour
Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The American Federation of Labor, with Samuel Gompers as its first president, is formed as an umbrella organization to represent all unions
The split in the Liberal party over Home Rule results in a defeat for Gladstone and the return of Lord Salisbury as Britain's prime minister
The Crofters' Holdings Act provides security of tenure and other safeguards for Highland crofters in Scotland
The Home Rule campaign for Ireland prompts a Scottish Home Rule Association to fight in a related cause
Germany and Britain define neighbouring spheres of interest in east Africa
The German and British agreement in east Africa creates the present-day boundary between Tanzania and Kenya
German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine
Thomas Hardy publishes his novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, which begins with the future mayor, Michael Henchard selling his wife and child at a fair
Joseph Conrad becomes naturalized as a British subject and continues his career at sea in the far East
