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In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's…
Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea
Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in
An Anglo-Eyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army in the battle of Toski.
William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus…
With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), the Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery
George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the olde
The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on o
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed
The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park
David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of…
Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor ral
Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine
The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business