Meanwhile…

New Zealand legally introduces the eight-hour workday

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The Hundred Days' Reform and its downfall

1898

The First Sino-Japanese War

1894-1895

The Spanish-American War

1898

Suppression of Māori Culture Under Colonial Assimilation Policies

1840–1900

Bahá'í Faith Emerges from Persian Bábism

1860s

industrialization and urbanization

ca. 1800 - 1900

Philanthropic building societies construct the first model homes

jaren 1890

Construction of the 's-Hertogenbosch railway network and industrial growth

circa 1900

Fibonacci numbers in natural science

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Discovery of X-rays

1895

Rubber vulcanization enables athletic footwear

around 1892

Invention of the Diesel Engine

1897

Invention of the Radio

1901

Salsa, tango and jive emerge from the Americas

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

The survival of the birds

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Move to Italy and secondary school in Aarau

1895

Work at the patent office in Bern

1902

The Anthropocene and climate change

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