Revolutions, industry, nation-states and empires that spanned the globe. These articles cover the long nineteenth century.
The Act of July 1, 1862, paid two railroads in bonds and land by the mile. On May 10, 1869, the rails met at Promontory Summit and a telegraph sent "DONE."
· 1869Kume Kunitake published the Iwakura Mission's official record in 1878; the National Diet Library gives the mission's 1871 departure and aims.
· 1871Stanley's book gives November 10, 1871, for the Ujiji meeting; his own dispatch said November 3, and Livingstone's diary points to late October.
· 1871Kaufman took Khiva on June 10, 1873. The khan knelt June 14, ended slavery June 24 and in August signed 18 articles ceding the right bank of the Amu Darya.
· 1873Article 1 of the treaty signed at Ganghwa on February 26, 1876 called Joseon an autonomous state. The Gojong Sillok prints all twelve articles.
· 1876The Draft History of Qing on the 1875 debate, Zuo Zongtang's march to Urumqi, Turfan and Kashgar, Yaqub Beg's death at Korla in 1877, and the Ili treaty of 1881.
· 1877The House of Lords put six death estimates for the 1876-1878 Indian famine on record, from 600,000 to 6 million, and debated Temple's relief wage.
· 1877On February 3, 1879, Chelmsford wrote that every record of No. 3 Column was lost. The Gazette printed the dead by name; the Commons divided 246 to 306.
· 1879Historic Environment Scotland records the Tay Bridge high girders falling on December 28, 1879. The 1880 inquiry split into a joint report and Rothery's own.
· 1879Three police shot at Stringybark Creek on October 26, 1878; a 56-page letter left at Jerilderie in 1879; Glenrowan in June 1880; the gallows, November 11.
· 1880The General Act signed in Berlin on February 26, 1885, drew no borders. It set trade and river rules; the partition came by treaty and war in the years to 1914.
· 1885Mount Tarawera erupted for about five hours on June 10, 1886 and buried Te Wairoa. A lake survey and a land survey disagree on where the terraces lie.
· 1886Rinderpest reached Africa with the Italian invasion of Eritrea in 1889, killed 90 to 95 percent of cattle by 1896, and was declared eradicated worldwide in 2011.
· 1889The South Fork Dam failed on May 31, 1889. A county commission blamed its owners, a club of Pittsburgh industrialists, but every suit against the club failed.
· 1889A 50-year tobacco monopoly granted on March 8, 1890 for 15,000 pounds a year; a fatwa ended it by January 1892, and the bill was 500,000 pounds.
· 1891On January 17, 1893, Queen Liliʻuokalani yielded Hawaiʻi under protest to US troops. Cleveland called it an act of war; Congress apologized in 1993.
· 1893Article 17 of Wuchale says Menelik "consents" to use Italy in foreign business. Rome told the powers it would conduct it. Adwa decided which word stood.
· 1896Rawson's ultimatum to Khalid bin Barghash ran out at nine on August 27, 1896. Lyne, a Zanzibar official, timed the bombardment at thirty-seven minutes.
· 1896Waldemar Haffkine injected himself with 10 cc of plague vaccine on January 10, 1897, in Bombay. A 1902 accident at Mulkowal cost him his post until 1907.
· 1897Ordek forgot a spade at a Lop Nor ruin in March 1900. Going back for it, he found a second site that 1901's documents named Loulan, a Han-era kingdom.
· 1900Signed at Peking on September 7, 1901 by China and eleven powers, the Boxer Protocol set an indemnity of 450 million taels at 4 percent over 39 years.
· 1901Mount Pelée destroyed Saint-Pierre, Martinique, on May 8, 1902, three days before an election. Two people in the city are known to have survived.
· 1902Thousands camped in Tehran's British legation garden in July 1906 until the shah decreed an assembly. That Majles was shelled in 1908 and shut in 1911.
· 1906William Knox D'Arcy signed a 60-year Persian oil concession on May 28, 1901. Seven years later, a well at Masjed Soleyman struck oil on May 26, 1908.
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