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Events relating to athens
The most famous of the three-masted tea-clippers, the Cutty Sark is launched at Dumbarton for service to and from China
Pope Pius IX, rapidly losing temporal authority, declares a new dogma – that the pope, when speaking from the throne, is infallible on matters of faith or morals
The Turkish sultan finally allows the Christians of Bulgaria to have their own Orthodox patriarch
Napoleon III is among 83,000 French prisoners captured by the Germans at Sedan in the Franco-Prussian war
Civil War veterans in the USA establish the National Rifle Association to promote marksmanship
An uprising results in the Paris Commune, followed by the siege of the city by French government forces
British Columbia agrees to join the Canadian confederation on the promise of a transcontinental railway
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad cuts through the territory reserved for American Indians, bringing hordes of 'boomers'
San Francisco merchant Levi Strauss receives a patent for denim jeans, soon to be known as Levi's
US shoe salesman and YMCA member Dwight L. Moody launches into a new career as a revivalist preacher
Congress passes a Civil Rights Act outlawing segration in the USA on public transport and in hotels and restaurants
Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire
Turkish irregular soldiers, the ferocious bashibazouks, massacre some 15,000 Bulgarian civilians
Britain annexes the Boer republic in the Transvaal
The Nez Percé Indians are led by Chief Joseph in a war against the US army
John Astley buys Orleans House and converts it to a sports and social club which is unsuccessful.
On a wave of jingoism Benjamin Disraeli sends six British ironclads, in support of Turkey, to confront the Russians near Istanbul
The Boers inflict a convincing defeat on a British army at Majuba, in the Transvaal
Congress passes a Chinese Exclusion Act, in the USA's first retreat from the policy of welcoming all immigrants
Orleans House is bought by the Cunard family who are the last private owners.
The Boer republic in the Transvaal regains its independence from Britain
German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz builds the Tri-Star, a three-wheeled vehicle with an internal combustion that is considered the first commercial automobile
Explorer and orientalist Richard Burton begins publication of his multi-volume translation from the Arabic of The Arabian Nights
Italian troops occupy Eritrea, a province of Ethiopia
German engineer Gottlied Wilhelm Daimler builds the first successful 4-wheel vehicle with an internal combustion engine
