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Industrial Revolution (1876 - 1889) |
1876- Walt Whitman publishes sixth edition of Leaves of Grass
- Dudley Buck: “Moonbeams”
- John Knowles Paine: "Centennial Hymn," Op. 27
- John Alden Carpenter born
- Carl Ruggles born
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- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
- U.S. Centennial celebrations
- Custer's Last Stand
- Tilden-Hayes Election Compromise placates the South
- Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated
- Wagner's Bayreuth Festival opens
- Victoria named Empress of India
- Anne Gilchrist visits Whitman in Philadelphia
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Frederick Law Olmstead completes work on New York's Central Park
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
- Peter Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
- Jack London born
- Bruno Walter born
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| 1877 | 1877
- Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated
- Arthur de Lulli: "The Celebrated Chop Waltz (Chopsticks)"
- Henry James: The American
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
- Edison patents the phonograph
- Johannes Brahams: Symphony No. 2
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| 1878 | 1878
- Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
- Gilbert and Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore
- Peter Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin & Violin Concerto
- Henry James: The Europeans
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| 1879 | 1879
- Mary Baker Eddy founds the Church of Christ, Scientist
- Feodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
- Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
- Henry James: Daisy Miller
- Edison introduces the incandescent lightbulb
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| 1880 | 1880
- U.S. population tops 50 million, including 6 million foreign-born
- Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
- Pierre-Auguste Rodin sculpts The Thinker
- Guillaume Apollinaire born
- George Eliot dies
- Jacques Offenbach dies
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| 1881 | 1881
- James Garfield inaugurated; he is assassinated and succeeded by Chester A. Arthur
- Dwight’s Journal of Music ceases publication
- Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross
- Booker T. Washington founds the Tuskegee Institute
- Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
- Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
- Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
- The Concerts Lamoureux begin in Paris
- Béla Bartók born
- Pablo Picasso born
- Thomas Carlyle dies
- Feodor Dostoyevsky dies
- Modest Mussorgsky dies
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| 1882 | 1882
- Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust becomes the first industrial monopoly in America
- America's first Labor Day parade, in New York City
- Edison begins to light up New York City
- Richard Wagner: Parsifal
- Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People
- Edward Hopper born
- James Joyce born
- Igor Stravinsky born
- Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies
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| 1883 | 1883
- Brooklyn Bridge opens
- The volcano Krakatoa erupts in the South Pacific, killing about 40,000 people and causing weather problems worldwide
- Metropolitan Opera opens
- Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show
- Johannes Brahams: Symphony No. 3
- Gustav Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer
- Eubie Blake born
- Franz Kafka born
- Alexei Tolstoy born
- Anton Webern born
- Richard Wagner dies
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1884- “Going to the Polls,” with words by Julia B. Nelson, to the tune of “Comin’ thro’ the Rye,” asks for the justification behind denying women suffrage
- W.W. Gilchrist sets “Song of Love” and “Song of Doubt” by J.G. Holland
- Monroe Rosenfeld: "Climbing Up the Golden Stairs"
- Charles Tomlinson Griffes born
- Sara Teasdale born
- Henry Clay Work dies
| 1884
- Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Henry Adams: Esther
- Ten-story Home Life Insurance Building in Chicago is world's first skyscraper
- Claude Debussy: L'Enfant Prodigue
- Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
- Soprano Alma Gluck born
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| 1885 | 1885
- Grover Cleveland inaugurated
- Washington Monument dedicated
- Streetcar service begins in Baltimore
- The Great Lakes are connected by the opening of the locks
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4
- Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado
- Cezanne paints Mont Sainte-Victoire
- Winslow Homer paints Fog Warning
- Edgard Varèse born
- Victor Hugo dies
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| 1886 | 1886
- Statue of Liberty dedicated
- Haymarket Affair in Chicago
- Geronimo surrenders; end of Apache Wars
- Arthur Rimbaud: Les Illuminations
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Wilhelm Furtwängler born
- Oscar Koschka born
- Arthur Rubinstein born
- Franz Liszt dies
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| 1887 | 1887
- Queen Victoria celebrates 50th Jubilee
- St. Gaudens sculpts Standing Lincoln
- Henry James: What Maisie Knew
- Marc Chagall born
- Georgia O'Keefe born
- Edith Sitwell born
- Heitor Villa-Lobos born
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| 1888 | 1888
- Great Blizzard hits Atlantic Seaboard
- Grover Cleveland wins popular vote but Benjamin Harrison wins electoral vote
- The Gramophone makes recordings on a flat disc
- The Kodak camera first appears on the market
- Publication of National Geographic begins
- Richard Strauss: Don Juan
- T. S. Eliot born
- Katherine Mansfield born
- Matthew Arnold dies
- Edward Lear dies
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1889- Amy Marcy Beach: Three Songs, Op. 11 ("Dark is the night," "The Western Wind," and "The Blackbird" with texts by English poet W. E. Henley)
- Margaret Ruthven Lang sets the text of George Eliot in her song "Ojalá", which is performed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in a concert of American music
- Ethelbert Nevin publishes Five Songs, Op. 5, which includes texts in German, French, and English
- Walt Whitman publishes eighth edition of Leaves of Grass
- Eugene Field: Little Book of Western Verse
- Conrad Aiken born
- Robert Browning dies
- Belle Starr is shot to death
| 1889
- Benjamin Harrison inaugurated
- Flood kills thousands in Johnstown, PA, where composer Charles Wakefield Cadman is a boy
- Eiffel Tower is build for the Paris Exposition
- Peter Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
- Hugo Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch
- Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night
- Maurice Maeterlinck: La Princesse Madeleine
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Götzendämmerung
- Gerard Manley Hopkins dies
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