1870
- Rockefeller founds standard oil
- Franco-Prussian War
- Gambetta escapes from Paris in a balloon
- Miami Founded in Fla
1871
- Stanley finds Livingstone
- Great Chicago Fire
- Paris Commune
- German Empire Declared
1874
- Disraeli becomes PM
- Greenback Party formed
1875
- Britain buys Suez
- Tom Sawyer written
- Carmen first played in Paris
1876
- Bell patents the telephone
- Schleiman excavates Mycenae
- Straus plays Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz
- Custer annihilated at Little Bighorn
1877
- Britain annexes Transvaal
- Swan Lake performed at Bolshoi in Moscow
- Turkish suppression of Balkan Nationalists leads to Russo-Turkish War
- Chief Joseph leads Nez Perce vs US Army
1879
- Zulus defeat Brits at Isandalwhana, but lose at Ulundi
- Leopold sponsors Stanley�s expedition to the Congo
- Edison invents the lightbulb
1883
- Transvaal Republic under Kruger declared
1886
- Gold discovered in Transvaal
- Geronimo Surrenders
- AF of L formed
- Germany gets Tanzania
- Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York
1888
- William II takes throne
- Jack the Ripper murders seven women
- Kodak box camera invented
1890
- Mahan writes Influence of Sea Power on history
- Cecil Rhodes is PM of South Africa
- Van Gogh commits suicide
- Bismarck fired
- Idaho becomes a state
- "Battle" of Wounded Knee
1895
- Jameson Raid
- Wilde writes "Importance of being Earnest"
- Lenin exiled to Siberia
- Cuban War of Independence begins
- X-rays discovered
1898
- Spanish American War
- Fashoda Crisis
- Boxer Rebellion
1899
- Boer War begins
- US advocates Open Door Policy
- Black Week
- Mafeking besieged by Boers
- Boxer rebellion besieges foreigners in Peking
- British defeat Boer Armies and capture Pretoria
- Boers go "commando" guerrilla war begins
1901
- Victoria dies
- McKinley assassinated
- Beatrix Potter writes The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Carnegie sell US Steel
- Gillette founds American Safety Razor Company
1902
- Treaty of Vereeniging ends Boer War
1903
- Panama declares independence, US recognizes
- Lenin organizes Bolsheviks
- Curies win Nobel prize in Physics
1904
1905
- Russian Revolution
- Moroccan Crisis
- Einstein proposes Theory of Relativity
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