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Financially backed by the trade unions, it was eventually to take the place of the Liberal Party as the second party in the British state. United Kingdom - Late Victorian Britain: From the 1880s a mounting sense of the limits of the liberal, regulative state became apparent. One reflection of this awareness was the increasing perception of ...
1890s. The 1890s were difficult years for many Australians, dominated by a major economic depression and class conflict between workers and employers. During the long boom years, banks had lent heavily to buy houses and build farms. But then there was a global downturn, prices fell and investment from Britain dried up triggering the depression.
Jan 2 Record 19.2 feet alligator shot in Louisiana by American businessman Edward Avery McIlhenny. Jan 3 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin. Jan 7 African American inventor William Purvis receives a patent for the fountain pen. Jan 10 Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine" premieres.
24 apr 2021 · Timeline from 1870 to 1880. Getty Images. By. Robert McNamara. Updated on April 24, 2021. 1870. 1870: Thomas Nast, the star political cartoonist of Harper's Weekly, began a campaign of lampoon the corrupt "ring" that secretly ran New York City. Nast's biting depictions of the Tweed Ring helped bring down Boss Tweed. February 3, 1870: The 15th ...
Modern America (1890-1930) The dawn of the twentieth century saw the convergence of industrialization, urbanization, and rapid immigration; an era known as the emergence of Modern America. The rise of the city as the port of entry for the immigrant population and as the center of business put strains on urban America. As more immigrants arrived ...
January 1 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Mackinaw burns in a fire on the Black River. [1] January 2 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House. [2] January 22 – The United Mine Workers is founded. January 25 – Journalist Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
Major News Events From 1890 to 1899. 1890 Mississippi becomes the first state to incorporate requiring a literacy test as a qualification for voting. 1891 Birth Of Basketball. 1892 The first Ellis Island Immigration Station was officially opened. 1893 Lizzie Borden. 1894 Coca-Cola First Sold In Bottles.
