known as the Mahdi-challenges Egyptian control of the Sudan

The Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed ibn-Seyyid Abdullah of Dongola

goes bankrupt after spending circa $300 million trying to build a canal in Paman under de Lesseps

Compagnie Universelle de Canal Interoceanique

First winners of Nobel Prize

Roentgen for xrays and Dunant for founding Red Cross

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World History

Pgs 25-28

Description	Event	Description	Event	Description	Event
wrote his follow-0up to "On th Origin of Species" with his "Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" which concludes that man evolved from ape-like ancestors	Darwin	This ship will leave New York harbor in mid-November 1872 and then be found December 4th with crew of 10 missing but stores and corgo intact	The Mary Celeste	starts a battle for civilization he calls "Kulturkampf" which places the Catholic Church under state control, ends church influence on education and requires civil (rather than religious) marriage ceremonies	Bismarck
Deciphers a cuneiform tablet tha has the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Assyrian account of the Great FLood	SMith	Scottis physicist publishes "Electricity and Megetism" which describes properties f an electomatnetic field	Maxwell	White Star Liner runs aground off Halifax, Nova Scotia, whith loss of 502 of 931 passengers	SS Atlantic
Norwegian physician discovers teh leprosy baccilus and the disease will now be called Hansen's Disease	Hansen	French painters who had been rejected by teh Saon hold their firste exhibition. The show included this painting by Monet which lent its name to a new form of painting.	Impression Sunrise - Impressionism	came under British control through the efforts of Disraeili	Suez Canal
"Carment" set in a cigarette factory debuts - written by this person	Bizet	Gilbert & Sullivan begin their 21 year collaboration with this piece	Trial by Jury	English swimmer becomes the first to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais	Webb
German bacteriologist discovers the cause of anthrax	Koch	Isolates the causes for tuberculosis and conjunctivitis	Koch	proclaimed Empress of India	Queen Victoria
First ever Wimbeldon lawn tennes championship matches are organized by	the All England Croquet Club	dies and is suceeded by this son, Umberto I who rules until 1900	Italy's Victor Emmanuel II	Russian scientist whos via a study of dogs that the stomach produces gastric juices even without the introduction of food, leading to the concept of acquired or conditioned reflex	Pavlov
The word "boycott" enters the English language as tenant farmers organize against estate managed by this person and refuse to harvest his crops	Charles Boycott	founded by Rhodes who in the decade to come will grab a virtual monopoly on South African diamonds	DeBeers Mining Corporation	Assassinated in the same year as President Garfield	Czar Alexander II
assassinated in St. Petersburg by a bomb plot orchestrated by Perovskaya	Czar Alexander II	new Czar after after Czar Alexander II is assassinated	Czar Alexander III, Alexander II's son	dies leaving behind such works as "Night on Bald Mountain" "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition"	Mussorgsky
known as the Mahdi-challenges Egyptian control of the Sudan	The Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed ibn-Seyyid Abdullah of Dongola	leaves Paris for Constantinople and becomes Europe's first transcontinental rail service	The Orient Express	erupts in the greatest volcanic explosion since Santorini in 1470BC; and could be heard 3,000 miles away	Krakatoa
located in teh Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra	Krakatoa	dies, leaving behind such works as Luncheon on the Grass, Bar at the Folies Bergere, The Fifer and Olympia	Manet	dies leaving behind such works as Triastan and Isolde, Parsifal, The Ring of the Nibelungen Cycle (Das Rheingold, The Valkyries, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung), Lohengrin, The Flying Dutchman and Tannhausser	Wagner
partitions Aftrica among European powers including Belgium's King Leopold II as a private individual who gets teh Congo Free State	Berlin Congress	Falls to the forces of the Mahdi, as Charles "Chinese" Gordon and his garrison of English troops are massacred	Khartoum	German engineer reaches 9mph in the first-eer gas powered motor vehicle	Benz
administers the first-=ever rabies vaccine to an Alsatian boy bit by a rabid dog	Pasteur	is ridiculed for this Pointillistic method of painting as "Sunday Afternooon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" appears at the 8th and final show of French Impressionism	Seurat	German physicist shows the existence of electromagnetic waves in the space around a discharging Leyden jar	Hertz
Esperanto is invested as a universal language by	Zamenhof	publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story: A Study in Scarlet	Doyle	Scotsman who develops the first pneumatic tire, for bicycles	Dunlop
French chmist establishes the principle that if one of the factors in any chmical equilibrium changes teh system readjusts itself to minimize the changes	LeChatelier	translates "The Book of a Thousand Nights and a NightAKA A Thousand and One Arabian Nights"	Burton	London East End Streetwalkers (Nicholls, Chapman, Stride) and neighbors (Eddowes & Kelly) all die at the hands of an elusive figure	Jack the Ripper
Austria's archduke is found dead in a murder-suicide killing his mistress and then himself	Rudolph	left with no blood successor after Rudolph's suicide	Hapsburg emperor Franz Joseph	becomes Franz Joseph's heir apparent	Franz Ferdinand
goes bankrupt after spending circa $300 million trying to build a canal in Paman under de Lesseps	Compagnie Universelle de Canal Interoceanique	designed by Gustav Eiffel it is completed in Paris for the Universal Exhibition	Eiffel Tower	forces Otto von Bismarck to resign as Prime Minister	Kaiser Wilhelm
holds its first-ever political elections and represtatives take seats in teh Diet	Japan	Dutch Expressionist painter dies in a suicide leaving behind such works as "The Potato Eaters, Portraite of Dr. Gachet, Sunflowers, Starry Night and view of Arles"	Van Gogh	elected prim minister of Africa's Cape Colony	Rhodes
dies and is succeeded by his sister who will reign until 1893 as Queen Lydia LIliuokalanai	Hawaii's King David Kalakahua	overtrhown with the support of the US minister to Hawaii	Queen Lydia Liliuokalanai	first old-age pension plan goes into effect in	Germany
first old-age pension plan was proposed by	von Bismarck	construction began on ths from Moscow to Vladivostok	trans-Siberian railway	Russian composer dies leaving behind such works as "The 1812 Overture, Romeio and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Eugene Onegin, Sleeping Beautey, The Nutcracker and Swan Lake"	Tchaikovsky
dies of nephritis and is succeeded by his son who will reign until 1917 as Nicholas II	Alexander III	French army captain convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans and sentenced to Devil's Island, a penal colony off South America	Dreyfus	exonerated through the efforts of novelist Emile Zola in 1898 whose "I Accuse" claimes that he was wrongfully convicted	Dreyfus
ends a very brief Sino-Japanese War that has decimated the Chinese army and navey, gies Formosa to Japan and secures a Japanese Sphere of Influence over Korea	Treaty of Shimonoseki	invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel	diesel engine	Bavarian physicist who discovered xrays	Roentgen
Italian scientist who pioneered wireless telegraphy, the basis for radio transmissions	Marconi	defeated Italian forces at Adowa	Ethiopian warriors	ends the Italian protectorate	Treaty of Addis Abab
began in Canada's Klondike region	Gold Rush	French physicist who discovered radioactivity in uranium	Becquerel	revived at Athens through the efforts of Baron de Coubertin	modern Olympics
organizes the first Zionist World COngress, seeking a Jewish national state in Palestine	Herzl	celebrated her Diamond Jubilee (60 years on the throne)	Queen Victoria	British physician postulates that the Anopheles mosquito transmits malaria	Ross
German composer dies, leaving behind such works as "Academic Festival Overture, German Requiem, and Hungarian Dances"	Brahms	explodes in Havana Harbor killing 260+ and starting the Spanish-American War	battleship Maine	events include Commodore Dewey's victory at Manila Bay and Colonel Teddy Roosevelt's taking of San Juan Hill in Cuba as head of the Rough Riders (official commander Leon Wood)	Spanish-American War
ended the Spanish-American War	Treaty of Paris	Spain withdraws from Cuba, cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the US (pays $20 million for the Philippines)	Treaty of Paris	isolate radium, the first radioactive element	Curies
led a three year guerilla war in teh Philiplpines	Aguinaldo	begins in South Africa between the British and Duch Settlers (Boers)	Boer War	institutes and "Open Door" policy concerning free trade with China	US Secretary of State Hay
writes "The Theory of the Leisure Class"	Bevlen	Austrian composer dies, leaving behind such works as "The Blue Danube, Die Fledernaus (The Bat) and Tales From the Vienna Woods"	Strauss the Younger	assassinated and suceeded by his son, Victor Emmanuel III	Italy's King Umberto I
takes place in China against foreigners	Boxer Rebellion	laucnes his first rigid airship	von Zeppelin	German physicist proposes a quantum theory of energy, which states that bodies that radiate energy do not do so constantly but in discrete parcels called quanta	Planck
English archeologist unearths the palace of Knossos on Crete as the seat of Minoan culture	Evans	language unearthed on Crete	Linear B	published "The Interpretation of Dreams" which stresses psychoanalytic techniques	Freud
second modern Olympic Games held here	Paris	defeated Britain in the first-ever David Cup Matches in tennis	US	dies after a reign of nearly 64 years, and her son wil reign until 1910 as Edward VII	Queen Victoria
American forces capture guerilla leader Aguinaldo here	Philippines	gives the US sole rights to construct, maintian, and control a trans-isthmian canal in Central America	Hay-Pauncefote treaty	Nobel Prizes awarded for the first time from a fund esablished by	Nobel
First winners of Nobel Prize	Roentgen for xrays and Dunant for founding Red Cross	Italian opera composer dies, leaving behind such works as "La Traviata, Aida, Otello, Falstaff and Rigoletto"	Verdi	French Painter and lithographer dies leaving behind such works as "At the Moulin de la Galette, At teh Moulin Rouge and posters for Oscar Wilde's play Salome"	Touleouse-Lautrec
Ends the Boer War	Treaty of Vereeniging	deis in South Africa leaving a bequest to endow Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University	Rhodes	helps Pamana break away from Colombia, thus ensuring the US can build its Central American canal through Panamanian land	US
sends wireless greeting from Roosevelt to King Edward VII via wireless telgraphy or radio waves	Marcone	Former stockbroker and French Symbolist painger who has lived on Tahiti dies, leaving behind such works as "The Yellow Christ, The Woman With Mangoes and Two Tahitian Women"	Gauguin	The first race covered 1515 miles	Tour de France
Attack Russia's Port Arthur in Southern Manchuria, thus starting the Russo-Japanese War	Japanese	discovers the ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico's Yucatan	Thompson	dedicated at Uspallato Pass on the Chilean-Argentine border	Christ of the Andes
held in St. Louis, MO	Olympics	wins big at the Battle of Tsushima Straits off Korea against the Russian navy	Japanese admiral Togo	negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth ending teh Russo-Japanese War	Roosevelt
mutiny on The Potemkin	Russian sailors	grants a constitution and establishes a represetntative body for Russia	Czar Nicholas II	form the Sinn Fein Party	Irish Nationalists
Swiss theoretical physicist publishes a paper on his Special Theory of Relativey, including the now famous equation E = MC2	Einstein	(blank)	(blank)	(blank)	(blank)

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