Pgs 25-28
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| "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
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| German bacteriologist discovers the cause of anthrax | Koch | Isolates the causes for tuberculosis and conjunctivitis | Koch | proclaimed Empress of India | Queen Victoria
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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