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Events
- 1882 : The 1879 between Germany and Austria closed Zweibund is by joining Italy for Dreibund extended (up to 1914 / 15 ).
- 1881 to 1889 : Introduction of Bismarck's social laws in Germany: health, accident, pension and disability insurance.
Cultural history
- Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Also sprach Zarathustra .
- Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
- Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski writes The Brothers Karamazov .
- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
- The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first edition of Sherlock Holmes .
- The Statue of Liberty is inaugurated in 1886 .
Personalities
- Franz Joseph I , Emperor in Austria-Hungary
- Wilhelm I. , Emperor in the German Empire
- Wilhelm II , Emperor in the German Empire
- Otto von Bismarck , Chancellor of the German Empire
- Umberto , king in Italy
- Leo XIII. , Pope
- Alexander III , Tsar in Russia
- Jules Grévy , French President
- Victoria , Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- John Macdonald , Prime Minister of Canada
- Grover Cleveland , President of the United States
- Chester A. Arthur , President of the United States
- Meiji , emperor in Japan
- Cixi , Dowager Empress of China
- Naser ad-Din Shah , Shah in Persia
- Friedrich Nietzsche , writer
- Mark Twain , American writer
- Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostoevsky , Russian writer
- Arthur Conan Doyle , writer
- Helen Keller , American writer, blind and deaf
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