Meanwhile…

Abolition of slavery in Brazil

1888

The height of the British Empire

rond 1920

Construction of post-war high-rises and apartment districts

ca. 1945-1970

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876

Mexican Revolution

1910-1920

Cuban Revolution

1959

Suppression of Māori Culture Under Colonial Assimilation Policies

1840–1900

The Hague Convention as a forerunner

1954-05-14

Rise of the American shoe factory system

1860s-1880s

Merger into Daimler-Benz AG

1926-06-28

The Great Leap Forward

1958-1961

Fibonacci numbers in natural science

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Nobel Prize in Physics

1921

Initial Archaeological Survey Misses the Site's Significance

1963

Thomas Crapper popularizes the flush toilet

jaren 1880-1890

Construction of the Panama Canal

1904-1914

the container transforms world transport

1956-04-26

Salsa, tango and jive emerge from the Americas

from the late 19th century (tango) to the 1970s (salsa)

1956 Melbourne Olympics

1956-11-22

First long car journey by Bertha Benz

1888-08-05

Emigration to the United States

1933

Abebe Bikila wins the marathon in Rome barefoot

1960-09-10

the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa

augustus 1883

The Anthropocene and climate change

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