The events 1880 to 1900

1880s

• 1880–1881: the First Boer War.
• 1881: Tsar Alexander II is assassinated.
• 1881: Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.
• 1881: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull surrenders.
• 1881: First electrical power plant and grid in Godalming, Britain.
• 1881–1899: The Mahdist War in Sudan.
• 1882: The British invasion and subsequent occupation of Egypt
• 1883: Krakatoa volcano explosion, one of the largest in modern history.
  
  

  

  Thomas Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
• 1883: The quagga is rendered extinct.
• 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is published.
• 1884: Siege of Khartoum.
• 1884: Germany gains control of Cameroon.
• 1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• 1884–1885: The Berlin Conference signals the start of the European "scramble for Africa". Attending nations also agree to ban trade in slaves.
• 1884–1885: The Sino-French War led to the formation of French Indochina.
• 1885: King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom.
• 1885: Britain establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland (modern Botswana).
• 1885: Singer begins production of the 'Vibrating Shuttle'. which would become the Model T of sewing machines.
• 1886: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
• 1886: Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as a birthday gift.
• 1886: Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile.
• 1886: Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.
• 1886: Russian-Circassian War ended with the defeat and the exile of many Circassians. Imam Shamil defeated.
• 1887: The British Empire takes over Balochistan.
• 1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet.
• 1888: Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving film.
• 1888: Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London.
• 1888: Slavery banned in Brazil.
• 1889: Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.
• 1889: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the Ahmadi Muslim Community.
• 1889: End of the Brazilian Empire and the beginning of the Brazilian Republic.
• 1889: Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night.
• 1889: Aspirin patented.

First bus in history: a Benz truck modified by Netphener company (1895)

Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush

Studio portrait of Ilustrados in Europe, c.1890

[edit]1890s

• 1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last battle in the American Indian Wars. This event represents the end of the American Old West.
• 1890: Italy annexes Eritrea.
• 1890: Independence of Luxembourg.
• 1890: Death of Vincent van Gogh.
• 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
• 1891: 1891 Chilean Civil War.
• 1892: Basketball is invented.
• 1892: The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World.
• 1892: Fingerprinting is officially adopted for the first time.
• 1892: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite premières in St Petersberg.
• 1893: US forces overthrow the government of Hawaii.
• 1893: The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation is formed.
• 1893: New Zealand becomes the first country to enact women's suffrage.
• 1894: First commercial film release by Jean Aimé Le Roy.
• 1894: First gramophone record.
• 1894: France and the Russian Empire form a military alliance.
• 1894–1895: After the First Sino-Japanese War, China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan a free hand in Korea.
• 1895: Volleyball is invented.
• 1895: Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his play The Importance of Being Earnest.
• 1895: French troops capture Antananarivo in Madagascar.
• 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen identifies x-rays.
• 1894–1900: Dreyfuss Affair.
• 1895–1896: Ethiopia defeats Italy in the First Italo–Ethiopian War.
• 1895–1898: Cuban War for Independence results in Cuban independence from Spain.
• 1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
• 1896: Philippine Revolution ends declaring Philippines free from Spanish rule.
• 1896: Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa.
• 1896: Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.
• 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; J. J. Thomson identifies the electron, though not by name.
• 1897: Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu, proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire: lasts until 1910.
• 1897: Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and burns Benin.
• 1897: Greco-Turkish War.
• 1898: The United States gains control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
• 1898: Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'état, marking the end of the Hundred Days' Reform; the Guangxu Emperor is arrested.
• 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds
• 1898–1900: The Boxer Rebellion in China is suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.
• 1898–1902: The Thousand Days' War in Colombia breaks out between the "Liberales" and "Conservadores", culminating with the loss of Panama in 1903.
• 1899: Second Boer War begins (-1902); Philippine-American War begins (-1913).
• 1899: Indian famine begins.

1900

• Hawaii becomes an official U.S. territory.