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NINETEENTH CENTURY, IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE. 



Nov. 11, the revision of the New Testament by the 

 British and American committees was com'pleted. 

 Dec. 22, George Eliot died. 



1881. 

 Feb. 2, the Young People's Society of Christian 



Endeavor was organized in Portland, Me. 

 Feb. 5, Thomas Carlyle died. 

 March 13, Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, was 



assassinated. 

 June 1, the Secretary of War prohibited the use 



of tobacco by the cadets at West Point. 

 June 13, the Jeannette, of the De Long polar 



expedition, was crushed in the ice in 77 15' 



north, 155 east. 

 July 2, President James A. Garfield was shot. He 



died Sept. 19. 

 Aug. 26, Prof. Amos E. Dolbear announced a new 



system of telephone, with an improved receiver. 



1882. 



Jan. 4, John Willian. Draper, scientist, died. 

 Jan. 28, the cable street railway was first tested 



in Chicago. 



March 24, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died. 

 April 19, Charles Darwin died. 

 April 27, Ralph Waldo Emerson died. 

 June 2, Giuseppe Garibaldi died. 

 July 11, Alexandria, Egypt, was bombarded by 



a British fleet, plundered, and burned. 

 Dec. 6, a transit of Venus took place. 



1883. 



Jan. 16, the national civil service reform bill be- 

 came a law. 



Feb. 13, Richard Wagner died. 



Feb. 21, importation of American pork into Ger- 

 many was prohibited. 



April 4, Peter Cooper died. 



May 15, a treaty between the United States and 

 Korea was ratified at Seoul. 



May 24, the East river suspension bridge was 

 opened. 



Aug. 27, there was an eruption of the volcano 

 Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra. It 

 caused the famous red sunsets. 



Aug. 28, there was a great tidal wave in the 

 Straits of Sunda. 



Sept. 3, Ivan Turgenieff died. 



Sept. 21, direct telegraphic communication was es- 

 tablished between the United States and Brazil, 

 via Central America. 



Oct. 1, the rate of letter postage in the United 

 States was reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents. 



Nov. 5, the Egyptian army in the Soudan was 

 annihilated by the followers of the False Prophet. 



Nov. 14, the Arlberg Tunnel through the Alps 

 was completed. 



1884. 



Feb. 2, Wendell Phillips died. 



Feb. 11, Charles Bradlaugh, because of his atheism, 

 was refused the seat in Parliament to which he 

 had been elected. 



Feb.- 15, the first railroad train crossed the Andes 

 from Buenos Ayres. 



July 1, Franz Eduard Todleben died. 



Dec. 6, the Washington monument was completed. 



1885. 



Jan. 1, a convention went into effect between 

 Russia and Germany for the extradition of po- 

 litical criminals. 



Jan. 24, attempts were made to destroy the Tower 

 of London and the Houses of Parliament with 

 dynamite, and the explosions caused much dam- 

 age, wrecking a part of the House of Commons. 



Jan. 27, Khartoum fell, Gen. Gordon was killed. 



April 13, the McCormick Observatory, costing 



$70,000, was dedicated. 

 May 22, the Revised Old Testament was published 



simultaneously in New York and London. 

 May 22, Victor Hugo died. 

 July 23, Ulysses S. Grant died. 

 Aug. 29, the first cable railroad was operated in 



New York. 

 Oct. 29, Gen. George B. McClellan died. 



1886. 

 April 11, the first observation of Arbor Day in 



the United States occurred in Michigan. 

 May 7, the emancipation of slaves in Cuba was 



practically completed. 

 May 23, Leopold von Ranke died. 

 July 31, Franz Liszt died. 

 Aug. 4, Samuel J. Tilden died. 

 Nov. 18, Chester Alan Arthur died. 



1887. 



March 8, Henry Ward Beecher died. 



June 14, the Bureau of Indian Missions (Roman 



Catholic) was incorporated. 

 Sept. 5, the first observance of Labor Day in the 



United States took place in Maine. 

 Nov. 2, Jenny Lind died. 

 Nov. 21, a practical phonograph, invented by 



Thomas A. Edison, was announced. 



1888. 



May 10, the United States Congress passed the 

 international copyright bill. 



Aug. 5, Philip Henry Sheridan died. 



Oct. 23, President Cleveland approved the Chinese 

 exclusion act. 



Nov. 28, Edison's improved phonograph was ex- 

 hibited. 



Dec. 12, the American Sabbath Union was or- 

 ganized. 



Dec. 17, a training school for nurses was opened 

 at Bellevue Hospital, New York. 



1889. 



Feb. 11, the Constitution of the Empire of Japan 

 was proclaimed. 



March 8, John Ericsson died. 



March 16, the Mahdists were defeated in the bat- 

 tle of Senoussi. 



March 27, John Bright died. 



Nov. 3, North and South Dakota were admitted 

 as States. 



Nov. 8, Montana was admitted as a State. 



Nov. 11, Washington was admitted as a State. 



Nov. 15, Dom Pedro II of Brazil was dethroned 

 and a republic was established. 



Dec. 6, Jefferson Davis died. 



Lee. 12, Robert Browning died. 



1890. 

 Jan. 27, the stethotelephone was patented Vy 



James Louth. 

 March 21, the New York Court of Appeals decided 



that execution by electricity was constitutional. 

 April 20, the Psychical Research Society waa 



formed. 



July 3. Idaho was admitted as a State. 

 July 10, Wyoming was admitted as a State. 



1891. 

 Jan. 7, an international monetary conference nut 



in Washington. 

 Jan. 12, Canada brought suit in the United Statfs 



Supreme Court for seizure of sealing vessels in 



Bering Sea. 



Jan. 17, George Bancroft died. 

 Jan. 22, Hebrews were expelled from Moscow. 



