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Those in Britain's Liberal party opposing Home Rule for Ireland become a separate group under the name of Unionists
Sherlock Holmes features in Conan Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet
Alexander Borodin dies without finishing his opera Prince Igor (completed later by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov)
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello has its premeiere at La Scala in Milan
A German physiologist, Adolf Fick, grinds a pair of lenses to fit snugly in contact with a patient's eyeballs
To put an end to the Boer republic in Zululand, the British annexe the Zulu kingdom
A chancel is added at the east end of St Mary's Church to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queeen Victoria
Lenin's elder brother Alexander, while still a student, is executed for his part in a plot to assassinate the tsar, Alexander III
Queen Victoria's golden jubilee brings her back into the public's affection
The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao
A gathering of leaders from the British empire holds a colonial conference in London to coincide with Queen Victoria's jubilee
The US Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act, an early attempt to avoid the excesses of unrestrained capitalism
Eadweard Muybridge publishes Animal Locomotion, a folio volume containing 781 pages of photographs
January blizzard and summer drought bring to an end ten years of agricultural boom in the US midwest, prompting a new slogan – 'In Kansas we busted'
France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina
The Dawes Severalty Act deprives American Indians of their tribal lands, giving each instead an allotment of up to 160 acres
Anne Sullivan works with the deaf and blind 7-year-old Helen Keller, in a relationship that will last nearly half a century
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels
Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France
The emperor Pedro II frees all the remaining slaves in Brazil without compensating their owners
William Lever builds Port Sunlight as a model village for workers in his Sunlight Soap factory
The Ndebele chieftain, Lobengula, grants Rhodes mining rights in what is now Zimbabwe
The Imperial British East Africa Company is given a charter to adminster Kenya and Uganda
An American Indian visionary, Wovoka, launches a new religion that will bring the dead back to life, calling it the Ghost Dance
Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison wins the US presidential election, defeating the incumbent president Grover Cleveland
