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| [[Image:Nietzsche_in_Basel.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (c. 1875)]] | [[Image:Nietzsche_in_Basel.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (c. 1875)]] | ||
| [[Image:Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, ca. 1875.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket ]]'' (c. 1875) by [[James McNeill Whistler]]]] | [[Image:Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, ca. 1875.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket ]]'' (c. 1875) by [[James McNeill Whistler]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Communards pose with the statue of Napoléon I from the toppled Vendôme column.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Communards pose with the statue of Napoléon I from the toppled Vendôme column]]]] | ||
| [[Image:Pornokrates.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Pornokrates]]'' ([[1879]]) - [[Félicien Rops]], the defining [[painting]] of the [[Decadent movement]]]] | [[Image:Pornokrates.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Pornokrates]]'' ([[1879]]) - [[Félicien Rops]], the defining [[painting]] of the [[Decadent movement]]]] | ||
| [[Image:Western face of the Greek Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[1872]] [[photograph]] of the western face of the [[Greek]] [[Parthenon]]]] | [[Image:Western face of the Greek Parthenon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[1872]] [[photograph]] of the western face of the [[Greek]] [[Parthenon]]]] | ||
| [[Image:Darwin ape.jpg|thumb|right|As "[[Darwinism]]" became widely accepted in the 1870s, good-natured caricatures of him with an [[ape]] or [[monkey]] body symbolised evolution.]] | [[Image:Darwin ape.jpg|thumb|right|As "[[Darwinism]]" became widely accepted in the 1870s, good-natured caricatures of him with an [[ape]] or [[monkey]] body symbolised evolution.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:La Gare Saint-Lazare - version at the Musée d'Orsay Claude Monet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Gare Saint-Lazare (Monet series)|Gare Saint-Lazare]]'' (1877) by Claude Monet]] | ||
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| + | ! style="text-align:right; width:310px;"|<< [[1860s]] | ||
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| ==Events and Trends== | ==Events and Trends== | ||
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| + | * [[Comstock]] law (1873, USA) | ||
| ==Technology== | ==Technology== | ||
| * The invention of the [[telephone]] ([[1876]]) by [[Alexander Graham Bell]]. | * The invention of the [[telephone]] ([[1876]]) by [[Alexander Graham Bell]]. | ||
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| * The [[phonograph]] is invented in [[1877]] by [[Thomas Edison]]. | * The [[phonograph]] is invented in [[1877]] by [[Thomas Edison]]. | ||
| * [[Dewey Decimal System]] introduced | * [[Dewey Decimal System]] introduced | ||
| - | * [[Comstock]] law (1873, USA) | + | *[[Eadweard Muybridge]] solved [[Stanford and the trot question]] by making high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system. |
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| == Literature == | == Literature == | ||
| *''[[Venus in Furs]]'' (1870) | *''[[Venus in Furs]]'' (1870) | ||
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| * [[Jules Verne]] publishes ''[[Around the World in 80 Days]]'' | * [[Jules Verne]] publishes ''[[Around the World in 80 Days]]'' | ||
| *''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Ashbee)|Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' (1877) - Pisanus Fraxi | *''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Ashbee)|Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' (1877) - Pisanus Fraxi | ||
| + | *''[[Les Diaboliques (short story collection)|Les Diaboliques]]'' by Barbey d'Aurevilly | ||
| + | *"[[Is the Bible Indictable?]]" (c. 1877), a pamphlet by Annie Besant | ||
| == Quote of the decade == | == Quote of the decade == | ||
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| *''[[Impression, soleil levant]]'' (1872/1873) - Claude Monet | *''[[Impression, soleil levant]]'' (1872/1873) - Claude Monet | ||
| - | *''[[Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket]]'', ca. 1875 James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) | + | *''[[Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket]]'', ca. 1875 James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
| *''[[Pornokrates]]'' (1879) - Félicien Rops | *''[[Pornokrates]]'' (1879) - Félicien Rops | ||
| + | *''[[L'Absinthe]]'' (1876) - Edgar Degas | ||
| == Music == | == Music == | ||
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Events and Trends
- Comstock law (1873, USA)
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Technology
- The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell.
- The light bulb was invented.
- The phonograph is invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.
- Dewey Decimal System introduced
- Eadweard Muybridge solved Stanford and the trot question by making high-speed time lapse photographic demonstration of a horse airborne during the gallop using a trip-wire system.
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Literature
- Venus in Furs (1870)
- Carmilla (1872)
- Jules Verne publishes Around the World in 80 Days
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) - Pisanus Fraxi
- Les Diaboliques by Barbey d'Aurevilly
- "Is the Bible Indictable?" (c. 1877), a pamphlet by Annie Besant
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Quote of the decade
"To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point." --Arthur Rimbaud
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Births
Pierre Louÿs - Marcel Proust - Paul Valéry - Alfred Jarry - Arnold Schoenberg - Francis Picabia
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Visual arts
- Impression, soleil levant (1872/1873) - Claude Monet
- Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, ca. 1875 James Abbott McNeill Whistler
- Pornokrates (1879) - Félicien Rops
- L'Absinthe (1876) - Edgar Degas
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Music
- Danse Macabre (1874) - Camille Saint-Saëns
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War, peace and politics
- Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) results in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire
- Continuing expansion of the British Empire; beginning of the New Imperialism
- Bulgaria and Romania declare independence following war against the Ottoman Empire
- Passive resistance is used to prevent the confiscation of Māori land at Parihaka in New Zealand
- Emergence of German Empire and Alliance System
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