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An undetected murderer, slitting the throats of seven London prostitutes, becomes known by the public as Jack the Ripper
Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, the son of Alois and Klara
Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north
The first Land Run into Oklahoma has settlers galloping in from noon to claim territory previously reserved for American Indians
Menelik II is crowned emperor in Ethiopia, bringing the crown back to the Solomon dynasty
23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin
Vincent van Gogh enters a psychiatric asylum in St Rémy as a voluntary patient
The Second International is established by the Socialist parties of ten nations, meeting at a congress in Paris
A collapsing dam sends 40 feet of water through Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2000 people
The tone poem Don Juan, by the 25-year-old Richard Strauss, has a passionately mixed response at its premiere in Weimar
US reformer Jane Addams sets up Hull House as a neighbourhood social centre in a deprived area of Chicago
France and Britain agree colonial boundaries for Senegal and Gambia in west Africa
The French Panama Canal company goes into liquidation with work still in progress
The first conference of American nations, in Washington, D.C., launches the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics (later called the Pan-American Union)
The Phillips family sells the Mortlake brewery to Watney’s
English musicologist George Grove completes publication of his four-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians
A coup removes emperor Pedro II from his throne in Brazil, putting in his place a military dictatorship
The US industrialist Andrew Carnegie argues in The Gospel of Wealth that 'the man who dies rich dies disgraced'
Austrian composer Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere in Budapest of his first symphony, described as a 'symphonic poem'
In the treaty of Uccialli, Menelik II cedes the Ethiopian province of Eritrea to Italy
Charles Steward Parnell is cited as co-respondent in a divorce case brought against Kitty O'Shea
Elizabeth Twining dies and leaves Dial House to the parish for use as a vicarage.
The Fabian Society publishes Essays in Socialisman influential volume of essays edited by Bernard Shaw
The explorer and Arabist Richard Burton dies in the British consulate in Trieste
Sergei Winogradsky discovers that certain microorganisms can live on inorganic compounds, in the process known as chemosynthesis
