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What happened around the world in 1876? Day by day. Full stories in the eBook In 1876: Bananas & Custer.

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366 Days
756 Stories
472 Paintings
546 Newspaper Illustrations
52 Maps
43 Graphs
15 Quick Quizzes
36 Film Reviews
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@Biffo183 S Club 4

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@AmericanIndian8 @SolarRoadways extends that idea to all concrete & tarmac

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@Biffo183 That’s ‘andy ‘Arry; Chuck it in the oven (what on earth was the advert for?)

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@DominicFrisby Even funnier is that proceeds from prostitution and illegal drug sales are now included in UK GDP. No wonder we believe the myth of infinite growth. I'll have 20 quids' worth
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#OnThisDay in 1876 #Moriarty steals Duchess of Devonshire (most expensive painting ever). Thief, reputed to be Adam Worth, was possibly Conan Doyle's model for #Sherlock villain

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#OnThisDay in 1876 HMS Challenger arrives back in UK after 68,890 nautical miles, 1,606 days, 4,500 new species & discovery of Mariana Trench

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#OnThisDay in 1876 Charles Parnell @UKParliament spoke up against Prime Minister Disraeli. Irishmen had been convicted of murder NOT because they were political but because they were #Irish. Parnell was using democracy to try & change British involvement in Ireland

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#OnThisDay in 1876 Ladies' National Temperance Conference held in Faringdon #London, Sir Henry Thompson says he is quite alive “to the agreeable exhilaration which follows a moderate dose of good champagne”. Temperance was never going to make it in England like US Prohibition

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#OnThisDay in 1876 gold medal for trans-Africa explorer Lieutenant Verney Lovett Cameron at Royal Geographical Society gala dinner @RGS_IBG Soon Leopold II King of the Belgians would be knocking on his door to offer him a job

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#OnThisDay in 1876 Edwards Pierrepont is appointed USA Ambassador to UK ahead of President Grant's choice of Mr Richard Dana. A snub from both Republicans & Democrats

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Written & set mostly in 1876 Anna Karenina's suicide by train could have been #OnThisDay in 1876 (in May sunshine). In modern times in the UK there are still approx 200 suicides per year on the railways out of approx 5-6,000.

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#OnThisDay at the @royalacademy Summer Exhibition “Looking out for a Good Investment” by Erskine Nichol "presents 2 children before a tempting array of toys & sweetmeats in a village shop-window pondering what would yield the best return for the penny they have between them."

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By my calculations looking at the historical references in the book, #OnThisDay in 1876 #Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (SPOILER ALERT) throws herself under a train to end the sorrow that overlapped her joy. Great book & a great film

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#OnThisDay in 1876 "explosion of foul air & gas" 700 feet down in Grove Shaft #Midlothian Coal Pit, Chesterfield, #Virginia kills 8 miners. It's a high risk job in 1876

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#OnThisDay in 1876 there are Zombie nuns @HerMajesty’s Theatre #London. In Meyerbeer's opera "Robert le diable" nuns rise from graves). Here is Degas version from 1876 now at @V_and_A painted for Jean-Baptiste Faure who had appeared in the play

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#OnThisDay in 1876 President Leon de Tejada's government troops defeat rebel Porfirio Diaz's #Mexico revolution at Battle of Icamole. Diaz reported to have been in tears afterwards OR to have scolded his officers (depends who tells the story)

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#OnThisDay in 1876 #Queen Victoria's train journey to #Balmoral is interrupted at 9.30 am at #Perth with news that Princess Christian's (Helena) week-old Baby Prince Harold has died. Infant mortality is everyone's problem

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#OnThisDay in 1876 after an emergency baptism, Baby Prince Harold seems a bit better so grandma #QueenVictoria & Aunt Beatrice leave by rail for #Balmoral at 8pm

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#OnThisDay in 1876 "Interior of the Atelier" by Mihaly Munkacsy at Paris Salon, which unusually Henry James loved: "the painting has incomparable breadth & freedom, & yet all its rich, bold brush work has been admirably wrought, &, as it were, melted together". Probably this one

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#OnThisDay in 1876 royal encounter with infant mortality unfolds. The daughter of #QueenVictoria Princess Helena’s son, Prince Harold, attacked by convulsions - emergency baptism