1880s

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Events

Cultural History

• Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra published.

• Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov.
• Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• Arthur Conan Doyle published his first edition of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in 1886.

Personalities

• Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria- Hungary in
• Wilhelm I, Emperor of the German Empire
• Wilhelm II, Emperor of the German Empire
• Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire
• Umberto, King of Italy
• Leo XIII. Pope
• Alexander III. , Tsar of Russia
• Jules Grévy, French President
• Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• Robert Gascoyne - Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• John Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada
• Grover Cleveland, President of the United States
• Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States
• Meiji Emperor in Japan
• Cixi, Empress Dowager of China
• Naser ad -Din Shah, Shah of Persia
• Friedrich Nietzsche, writers
• Mark Twain, American writer
• Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian writer
• Arthur Conan Doyle, writer
• Helen Keller, American writer, blind and deaf