 Mark Twain: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" "Trial by Jury" by Gilbert & Sullivan, their first operetta Japenese legal system reformed Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone J.J.R.Macleod discovered insulin Heinrich Schliemann excavated Mycenae US National Baseball League founded Edison invented the phonograph 1st public telephones placed in US Thomas Hardy: "The Return of the Native" Leo XIII, named Pope Cleopatra's Needle moved to London Gilbert & Sullivan: "H.M.S. Pinafore" David Hughes invented microscope A.A.Pope manufactured first bicycles in US Ibsen: "A Doll's House Rodin: "John the Baptist" (sculpture) Lew Wallace: "Ben Hur" Cézanne: "Chateau de Medan" Renoir: "Place Clinchy" Rodin: "The Thinker" Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Pirates of Penzance" Pasteur discovered a chicken cholera vaccine Edison & JW Swan each devised elecric lights game of BINGO is developed Andrew Carnegie developed 1st large steel furnace canned fruits & meats 1st appeared in stores Chester Arthur, 21st US President vatican archives opened to scholars Monet: "Sunshine and Snow" Tuskegee Institute founded by Booker T. Washington freedom of press for France 3-mile limits for international waters agreed upon Robert Lewis Stevenson: "Trasure Island" Cézanne: "Self Portrait" Debussy: "Le Printemps" Renoir: "Umbrellas" New York Metropolitan Opera House opened 1st 10-story skyscraper built Tolstoi: "The Power of Darkness" Mormon church split Gilbert & Sullivan: "The Mikado" Strauss: "The Gypsy Baron" Pasteur made a rabies vaccine George Eastman made coated photographic paper Stevenson: "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" Statue of Liberty dedicated Rodin: "The Kiss" American Federation of Labor founded Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: "A Study in Scarlet", 1st of Sherlock Holmes stories Verdi: "Otello" "Kaiser") Eastman perfected "Kodak" box camera JB Dunlop developed pnuematic tire "Jack the Ripper" murdered 6 women in London Alexander Gustave Eiffel designed the Eiffel Tower punch card system developed by H. Hollerith rubber gloves 1st used in surgery global influenza epidemic Daughters of the American Revolution founded Conan Doyle: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Thomas Hardy: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Gauguin settled in Tahiti Henri Toulouse-Letrec painted 1st music hall posters Japanese earthquake killed 10,000 people Eugéne Dubois discovered "Java Man" Toulouse-Letrec: "At the Moulin Rouge" Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" 1st cans of pineapples Karl Benz constructed his 4-wheel car Henry Ford produced his 1st car Louis Lumiere invented the cinematograph plague bacillus discovered by both Yersin & Kitasato Baron de Coubertin founded modern Olympic Games H.G.Wells: "The Time Machine" Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake" ballet Wilhelm Rontgen discovered x-rays Marconi invented radio telegraphy Auguste & Louis Lumiere invented a motion picture camera Nobel Prizes established Puccini: "La Boheme" Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant opened 1st modern Olympic Games held in Athens Kipling: "Captains Courageous" H.G.Wells: "The Invisible Man" Edmond Rostand: "Cyrano de Bergerac" Shaw: "Candida" H.G.Wells: "The War of the Worlds" Shiga discovered dysentery bacteria Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin built 1st airship photographs using artificial light 1st taken Rutherford discovered alpha & beta rays 1st magnetic sound recording |
 Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone.  Auguste Rodin was one of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century.  Andrew Carnegie was a dominant figure in the U.S. steel industry.  George Eastman developed an improved process for making photographic plates.  Arthur Conan Doyle was an English novelist who is widely known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes.  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was known above all for his aphoristic wit, the Irish writer.  Guglielmo Marconi is known as the father of wireless.  Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, and industrialist.  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a literary giant in his own time. |
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