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†1889 Wilkie Collins

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The Woman in White Full Movie Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwrightknown especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre. Collins’s works were classified at the time as sensation novels, a genre that became the precursor to detective and suspense fiction. He also wrote penetratingly on the plight of women and on the social and domestic issues of his time. For example, his 1854 Hide and Seek contained one of the first portrayals of a deaf character in English […]

†1910 Leo Tolstoy

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War and Peace Full TV-series Lev Tolstoy usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Tolstoy never having won a Nobel Prize was a major Nobel Prize controversy, and remains one. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties. Tolstoy’s notable works include the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction, as well as […]

†1881 Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces. Dostoevsky’s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), The Adolescent (1875), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His 1864 novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Dostoevsky’s body of work consists of thirteen novels, three novellas, seventeen short stories, and […]

†1900 Oscar Wilde

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The Trials of Oscar Wilde Full Movie Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts. Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on “The English Renaissance” in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote […]

Events 1890s – Dracula published

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1897 Bram Stoker’s Dracula published Events Second Boer War (1899–1902) 1890: The cardboard box is invented. 1892: John Froelich develops and constructs the first gasoline/petrol-powered tractor. 1894: Karl Elsener invents the Swiss Army knife. 1894: First gramophone record. 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen identifies x-rays. 1895: Volleyball is invented. 1886: Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed. 1890: First use of the electric chair as a method of execution. Science Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin independently suggested that human CO2 emissions might cause global warming. 1894: Argon was discovered by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay. 1895: Helium was discovered to exist on the Earth by William Ramsay, 27 years after first being detected spectrographically on the Sun in 1868. 1895: X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen. 1896: A […]

Events 1880s – van Gogh paints his Starry Night

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1889 van Gogh paints his Starry Night Events First Boer War (1880–1881) American Indian Wars (Intermittently from 1622 to 1918) 20 July 1881 — Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana. France colonizes Indochina (1883) German colonization (1887) May to August, 1883: Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupted cataclysmically; 36,000 people were killed, the majority being killed by the resulting tsunami. September 1887: The Yellow river flooded and killed about 900,000 people. Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobiles were undertaken by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach The first commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings occurred. Steel frame construction of “sky-scrapers” happened for the first time. Home Insurance Building, the […]

Events 1870s – Blue Jeans invented

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1873 Blue Jeans invented Events 1868–1878: Ten Years’ War between Cuba and Spain. 1870–1871: Franco-Prussian War results in the unifications of Germany and Italy, the collapse of the Second French Empire and the emergence of a New Imperialism. 1870: Napoleon III abdicated after unsuccessful conclusion of Franco-Prussian War. Third Republic proclaimed. 1876: The April Uprising in Bulgaria against the Ottoman Empire. 1879: Anglo-Zulu War results in British victory and the annexation of the Zulu Kingdom. 1879–1880: Little War against Spanish rule in Cuba leads to rebel defeat. 1879–1883: Chile battles with Peru and Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the Pacific. 1876–1914: The massive expansion in population, territory, industry and wealth in the United States is referred to as the Gilded Age. Science and technology The prototype telephone was invented […]

Events 1860s – Alice in Wonderland

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Lewis Carroll’s Aice in Wonderland The American Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1865. The Paraguayan War (1864–1870) starts in South America, with the invasion of Paraguay by the Triple Alliance (Empire of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay). It will kill almost 60% of the country’s population. Science and technology The Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground railway, opens in London in 1863. The Plongeur, the first mechanically powered submarine in the world, is launched in 1863 after three years of construction. The United States’ first transcontinental railroad is completed in 1869. The Suez Canal in Egypt is opened in 1869. Carl Wilhelm Borchardt discovers and proves Cayley’s formula in graph theory in 1860. The first transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully laid in 1866, enabling almost instant communication between America and […]

Events 1850s – Florence Nightingale

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Crimean War (1853–56) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict takes place around Crimea, on the northern coasts of the Black Sea. On 8 October 1856 the Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. The Indian Rebellion of 1857, a revolt against British colonial rule in India. Establishment of the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) and the Orange Free State, granting independence to the Voortrekkers by the British. Science and technology 1851 – the Great Exhibition is held at the Crystal Palace, London, considered to be the […]

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