1880s
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Art and culture
- Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
- Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov.
- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published.
- Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale.
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Technology
- Development and commercial production of electric lighting
- Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile
- First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
- First steel frame construction of "sky-scrapers"
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Other
- Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami
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Births
Guillaume Apollinaire - James Joyce - Virginia Woolf - Edgar Varèse - Franz Kafka - Sax Rohmer - Mussolini - Lon Chaney, Sr. - José Ortega y Gasset - Gaston Bachelard - D.H. Lawrence - Sylvia Beach
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Deaths
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Notes
- Trends and developments: Paris holds the Exposition Universelle with the Eiffel tower as main attraction - Arts and Crafts Movement - Art Nouveau - start of the Decadent movement - manifesto of the Symbolist movement - peak popularity of music halls - rise of Tin Pan Alley - introduction of phonograph - introduction of cars - Moulin Rouge - introduction of electric lighting - Jack the Ripper
- Art: Vincent Van Gogh - post-impressionism
- Literature: Flatland (1884) - À rebours (1884) - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) - Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885) - Henry Spencer Ashbee - Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) - Seurat
- Skull with a Cigarette (1886) - Vincent van Gogh
Events
- 1880 Skene's glands discovered by Alexander Skene
- 1881 by 1881, the French government withdrew its support from the official Salons
- 1882 'Zuiderpershuis' built
- 1883 The Shapeless Polyp Floated along the Bank, a Sort of Hideous, Smiling Cyclops (1883) - Odilon Redon
- 1884 Flatland (1880) - Edwin A. Abbott
- 1885 Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885) - Henry Spencer Ashbee
- 1886 Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
- 1887 Du Fétichisme dans l’amour 1887 - Alfred Binet
- 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his first victim
- 1889 Paris Exposition
- More than a million people took the elevator to the top of the Eiffel tower when it was opened at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. [May 2006]
- Théorie de la décadence (1883) -- Paul Bourget, Essais de psychologie contemporaine (1883)
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