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The Nutcracker, with choreography by Lev Ivanov to music by Tchaikovsky, has its premiere in St Petersburg
Colonel Gostling-Murray dies and Whitton Park is put up for sale.
Mr Pooter is the suburban anti-hero of the The Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith
Constantine Cavafy begins a 30-year career as a civil servant in Alexandria's Irrigation Service
The French chef Auguste Escoffier creates and names a dessert in honour of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba
An aluminium statue of Eros, by English sculptor Alfred Gilbert, is unveiled in Piccadilly Circus
Giacomo Puccini has his first success when his opera Manon Lescaut opens in Turin
De Lesseps, on trial for his management of the Panama Canal company, is sentenced to five years in prison
In Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi writes his last opera, and his only comedy since the early days of his career.
France claims the Ivory Coast (or Côte d'Ivoire) in west Africa as a French colony
The Independent Labour Party, later changing its name to the Labour Party, is founded in Britain by the trade unionist Keir Hardie
US author Stephen Crane cannot find a publisher for his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so issues it privately
Leander Jameson, finding a pretext for war, drives Lobengula out of his kingdom in Rhodesia
Gladstone finally gets a Home Rule bill through the Commons, only to have it rejected in the Lords
Frank Hornby patents in Liverpool his Meccano construction system for children
Decline in the federal gold reserve and panic by investors prompts a spectacular crash in the US economy
Mahatma Gandhi, travelling with a first-class ticket, is forcibly ejected from the carriage at Pietermaritzburg because of his colour
Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen sails into the Arctic in the purpose-built Fram, beginning a three-year expedition to reach the North Pole
The British Central African Protectorate is set up in the region of present-day Malawi
George Westinghouse demonstrates the advantages of AC (Alternating Current) when he provides 100,000 lights for the Chicago World's Fair
The Gaelic League is founded to restore the use of Gaelic as Ireland's spoken language
After a gap of 30 years, work resumes on the Temperate House. Eventually, after the bankruptcy of one contractor, it opens in May 1899 as the world's largest plant house.
Anton Dvorák's Ninth Symphony, subtitled 'From the New World', has its first performance in New York
The Scottish game of shinty is provided with a standardized set of rules
Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 6, known as the 'Pathetic' or Pathétique, has its premiere in St Petersburg
