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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1870 | - 1870—1884:
SA - |Xam prisoners at Cape Town interviewed by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
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| 2 | 1878 | - 1878—1879:
SA - Griqualand West Rebellion and Korana War coincide with similar conflicts elsewhere in South Africa.
- 1878—1879:
SA - Griqualand West and Tswana Rebellion
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| 3 | 1879 | - 1 Sep 1879—1879:
SA - Zulu War starts, battles at Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi.
- 18 Sep 1879—18 Sep 1879:
Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time
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| 4 | 1880 | - 1880—1880:
SA - Griqualand West annexed to Cape Colony
- 1880—1880:
SA - First Legislative Council in Transvaal. Formation of De Beers Company. Formation of the Afrikander Bond.
- 1880—1881:
SA - First Anglo-Boer War, Boers defeat Britain.
- 1880—1880:
Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
- 1880—1880:
Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria
- 2 Aug 1880—2 Aug 1880:
Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
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| 5 | 1881 | - 1881—1881:
SA - Jantje Mothibi of Tlhaping dies
- 1881—1882:
SA - Tswana-Kora wars with white mercenary involvement
- 1881—1881:
SA - Battle of Laing's Nek, 28 January. Battle of Majuba, 27 February. Britain recognises South African Republic (ZAR).
- 1881—1881:
Postal Orders introduced
- 1881—1881:
Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
- Sep 1881—Sep 1881:
Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity
supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)
- 26 Oct 1881—26 Oct 1881:
Gunfight at OK Corral
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| 6 | 1882 | - 1882—1882:
SA - Abraham September (freed slave) begins Orange River irrigation
- 1882—1882:
SA - Approximately 4645 settlers arrive. South End Cemetery in Port Elizabeth started. Use of Dutch recognised in Cape Parliament.
- 1882—1882:
Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed
- 29 Aug 1882—1882:
SA - 229 Norwegians arrive aboard the "Lapland" and settle at the mouth of the Umzimkulu river (Port Shepstone), Natal.
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| 7 | 1883 | - 1883—1890:
SA - Germans occupy South West Africa and German East Africa
- 1883—1883:
SA - Revd Gwayi Tyamzashe; last black man to hold a claim in Kimberley mines; loses his claim
- 1883—1883:
Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
- 24 May 1883—24 May 1883:
Brooklyn Bridge, New York opens (crosses East River)
- 1 Aug 1883—1 Aug 1883:
Parcel post starts in Britain
- 27 Aug 1883—27 Aug 1883:
Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
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| 8 | 1884 | - 1884—1885:
SA - Warren takes over Stellaland and Goshen; establishes Crown Colony of British Bechuanaland and Bechuanaland Protectorate
- 1884—1884:
SA - The Anglican St. Cuthbert's Church built in Port Elizabeth. Barberton goldfields opened.
- 31 May 1884—31 May 1884:
John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
- 13 Oct 1884—13 Oct 1884:
Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
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| 9 | 1885 | - 1885—1885:
SA - Railway line opened from Cape to Kimberley.
- 1885—1885:
Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car
- 1885—1885:
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
- 1885—1885:
Eastman makes first coated photographic paper
- 1885—1885:
Canadian Pacific Railway completed
- Mar 1885—Mar 1885:
First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
- 5 Sep 1885—5 Sep 1885:
The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel
- 29 Sep 1885—29 Sep 1885:
First electric tramcar used at Blackpool
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| 10 | 1886 | - 1886—1886:
SA - Gold found on Witwatersrand
- 1886—1886:
SA - Gold discovered in the Transvaal (Witwatersrand)
- 20 Jan 1886—20 Jan 1886:
Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales
- May 1886—May 1886:
Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named 'Coca-Cola'
- 29 May 1886—29 May 1886:
Putney Bridge opens in London
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| 11 | 1887 | - 1887—1887:
Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
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| 12 | 1888 | - 1888—1888:
SA - C.J. Rhodes amalgamates Kimberley mining companies as De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd
- 1888—1888:
SA - 'Rudd concession' signed by Lobengula
- 1888—1888:
SA - British South Africa Company founded.
- 1888—1888:
Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace
- 1888—1888:
Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year
- 1888—1888:
County Councils set up in Britain
- 1888—1888:
Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
- 1888—1888:
First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent
for his camera which uses roll film
- 20 Mar 1888—20 Mar 1888:
Football League formed
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| 13 | 1889 | - 1889—1889:
Celluloid film produced
- 1889—1889:
Dock Strike - docker's won their 'Docker's Tanner' 6 old pennies
- 31 Mar 1889—31 Mar 1889:
Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
- 14 May 1889—14 May 1889:
Children's charity NSPCC launched in London
- 3 Jun 1889—3 Jun 1889:
Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
- 28 Sep 1889—28 Sep 1889:
Length of a metre defined
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| 14 | 1890 | - 1890—1890:
SA - Pioneer Column of Rhodes's British South Africa Company departs from Kimberley to occupy Rhodesia
- 1890—1890:
SA - Railway line reaches from Cape to Bloemfontein. First railway line in Transvaal, from Johannesburg to Boksburg.
- 4 Mar 1890—4 Mar 1890:
Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build
- 4 Nov 1890—4 Nov 1890:
City & South London Railway opens - London's first deep-level tube railway
and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
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| 15 | 1891 | - 1891—1891:
Primary education made free and compulsory
- 18 Mar 1891—18 Mar 1891:
First telephone link between London & Paris
- 4 May 1891—4 May 1891:
Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)
- 24 Aug 1891—24 Aug 1891:
Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
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| 16 | 1892 | - 1892—1892:
SA - Mankurwane of Tlhaping dies
- 1892—1892:
SA - Railway line to Johannesburg completed with connections from Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East London.
- 1892—1892:
Electric oven invented
- 1892—1892:
Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18's
- 6 Oct 1892—6 Oct 1892:
Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
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| 17 | 1893 | - 1893—1893:
Henry Ford's first car
- 1893—1893:
Zip fastener invented
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| 18 | 1894 | - 1894—1894:
SA - Glen Grey Act passed in Cape to control African labour and land
- 1894—1894:
Picture postcard introduced in Britain
- 1 Jan 1894—1 Jan 1894:
Manchester Ship Canal opens
- 1 Mar 1894—1 Mar 1894:
Blackpool Tower opens
- 30 Jun 1894—30 Jun 1894:
Tower Bridge first opens
- 2 Aug 1894—2 Aug 1894:
Death duties first introduced in Britain
- 2 Nov 1894—1894:
SA - Railway line between Lourenco Marques and Johannesburg opened.
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| 19 | 1895 | - 1895—1895:
Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London
- 1895—1895:
SA - The Jameson Raid takes place in the Johannesburg district in December. The Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway line opened by the South African Republic. Railway line opened between Durban and Johannesburg on 16 Dec 1896. Rinderpest causes big loss of cattle.
- 12 Jan 1895—12 Jan 1895:
The National Trust founded in England
- 24 May 1895—24 May 1895:
Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted
- 28 May 1895—28 May 1895:
Oscar Wilde sent to prison
- 12 Jul 1895—12 Jul 1895:
First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain
- 17 Oct 1895—17 Oct 1895:
First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey
- Nov 1895—Nov 1895:
X-rays discovered
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| 20 | 1896 | - 1896—1896:
SA - Montshiwa of Rolong dies
- 1896—1896:
SA - Rinderpest epidemic; spreading through Africa; breaks out here
- 1896—1897:
SA - Bechuanaland Campaign/Galeshewe's War begins at Phokwane and spreads to Langeberg
- 5 Apr 1896—5 Apr 1896:
First modern Olympic Games held in Athens
- 2 Jun 1896—2 Jun 1896:
Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
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