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January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London

January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy

January 5 - Battle of Shipka Pass IV

January 17 - Battle of Plovdiv

January 23 - Lord Beaconsfield orders British fleet to the Dardanelles

January 24 - The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.

January 28 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.

January 31 - Turkey agrees to armistice at Adrianople

February 2 - Greece declares war on Turkey.

February 8 - British fleet enters Turkish waters and anchors off Constantinople - Russia threatens to occupy Constantinople but does not carry out the threat

February 11 - First US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms.

February 11 - First weekly Weather report published in UK

February 18 - The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico

February 19 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison

February 20 - Pope Leo XIII succeeds Pope Pius IX as the 254th pope.

February 24 - Anti-Russian demonstrations in Hyde Park, London

February 28 - Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature (under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi)

March 3 - Bulgaria regained its independence from Ottoman Empire.

March 3 - The Treaty of San Stefano concludes the Russo-Turkish War

March 24 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.

March 25 - Russia rejects British proposal to lay San Stefano treaty before European congress

March 27 - In anticipation with war with Russia, Disraeli mobilizes the reserves and calls up Indian troops to Malta

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May 15 - Tokyo Stock Exchange established

June 4 - Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.

June 12-July 12 - Congress of Berlin about the Ottoman Empire

July 13 - The Treaty of Berlin makes Serbia, Montenegro and Romania completely independent

July 26 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.

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September 3 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

September 20 - The Hindu founded

October 1 - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) opens as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College.

October 14 - The worlds first recorded floodlit football fixture is played at Bramall Lane in Sheffield

October 15 - The Edison Electric Company begins operation.

October 17 - John A. Macdonald returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.

November 21 - Second Afghan War commences when the British attack Ali Masjid in the Khyber Pass.

November 29 - Kahua, the chief of Jaluits in the Marshall Islands, declares himself king of the Ralik Islands

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The Buchan School was founded on the Isle of Man.

Newton Heath founded in that year. Later the team was renamed as Manchester United.

Yellow fever in Mississippi Valley - over 13.000 dead

US arbitration rejects Argentinean claims to Paraguay's part of Chaco region

West Bromwich Albion F.C. play their first match.

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is the first one to navigate the Northern Sea Route, which is a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.

The Stawell Gift is run for the first time.

Everton Football Club, then known as St Domingo, formed

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January 6 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)

January 12 - Ferenc Molnár, author (d. 1952)

January 20 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer (d. 1968)

January 25 - Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)

February 1 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (d. 1944)

February 2 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect (d. 1955)

February 5 - André Citroën, French automobile manufacturer (d. 1935)

February 8 - Martin Buber, Austrian philosopher (d. 1965)

February 14 - Hirota Koki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)

February 26 - Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (d. 1930)

March 16 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1946)

March 22 - Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1919)

March 31 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)

April 6 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)

April 24 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)

April 28 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)

April 28 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)

May 3 - Cruz Hernandez, Oldest Living Person (disputed)

May 10 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)

May 26 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)

May 28 - Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)

June 1 - John Masefield, English poet and novelist (d. 1967)

June 3 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer (d. 1946)

June 5 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

July 4 - George M. Cohan, American singer, dancer, composer, actor, and writer (d. 1942)

July 24 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (d. 1957)

August 10 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)

August 28 - George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)

August 31 - Frank Jarvis, American athlete (d. 1933)

September 5 - Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist (d. 1913)

September 13 - Matilde Moisant, American pilot (d. 1964)

September 22 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)

September 20 - Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)

September 24 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)

October 1 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)

October 16 - Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)

November 1 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1959)

November 14 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (d. 1957)

November 17 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (d. 1939)

December 18 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader (d. 1953)

December 25 - Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder (d. 1941)

December 25 - Joseph Schenck, Russian-born film executive (d. 1961)

December 31 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1966)

December 31 - Horacio Quiroga, Argentina's writer was born in Salto, Uruguay (d. 1937)

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January 9 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)

January 18 - Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (b. 1788)

February 7 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)

February 11 - Gideon Welles, American politician (b. 1802)

February 19 - Charles-Francois Daubigny, French painter (b. 1817)

February 26 - Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1818)

March 8 - Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (b. 1802)

April 12 - William Marcy Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)

April 25 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)

May 28 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)

June 6 - Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (b. 1790)

June 6 - Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers, Marshal of France (b. 1795)

June 8 - Porter Rockwell, Mormon bodyguard (b. 1815)

June 12 - George V of Hanover (b. 1819)

July 17 - Aleardo Aleardi, Italian poet (b. 1812)

August 30 - James Geiss, English businessman (b. 1820)

November 28 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)

December 10 - Henry Wells, American businessman (b. 1805)

December 14 - Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1843)