1880s

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Events and Trends

Technology

Development and commercial production of electric lighting

Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered Automobile by Karl Benz , Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach

First commercial production and sales of Phonograph s and phonograph recordings.

First steel tird construction (yiia) "sky-scrapers"

American Society Of Mechanical Engineers founded 16 February 1880 , New York, N.Y.

Construction begins on the Panama Canal by the French. This is the first attempt to build the Canal.

Science

Heinrich Hertz discovers the Photoelectric Effect

Michelson-Morley Experiment , showing that the Speed Of Light is invariant

James-Lange Theory of Emotion

War, peace and politics

First Boer War

The New Imperialism

Literature and Arts

Mark Twain publishes The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn .

Feodor Dostoevsky publishes The Brothers Karamazov .

Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island .

First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published.

Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale.

Other

Krakatoa , a volcano in Indonesia , erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting Tsunami

About 300,000 Swedes emigrate to the United States

People

World Leaders

Emperor Franz Josef ( Austria-Hungary )

Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald ( Canada )

Guangxu Emperor ( China )

Emperor Wilhelm I ( German Empire )

Emperor Wilhelm II ( German Empire )

Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck ( German Empire )

King Umberto I ( Italy )

Pope Leo XIII

Emperor Meiji ( Japan )

Emperor Alexander II ( Russia )

King Alfonso XII ( Spain )

Queen - Empress Victoria ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury ( United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland )

President Rutherford B. Hayes ( United States )

President Chester A. Arthur ( United States )

President Grover Cleveland ( United States )

Nasser-al-Din Shah of Qajar Dynasty ( Persia )

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