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| - | [[Image:Nietzsche_in_Basel.jpg|left|thumb|200px|''[[Nietzsche in Basel]]'' (c. 1875), a photo of [[German philosopher]] [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]]] | + | [[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: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]]]] | ||
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Events and Trends
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
- Comstock law (1873, USA)
Literature
- Venus in Furs (1870)
- Carmilla (1872)
- Jules Verne publishes Around the World in 80 Days
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) - Pisanus Fraxi
Quote of the decade
"To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point." --Arthur Rimbaud
Births
Pierre Louÿs - Marcel Proust - Paul Valéry - Alfred Jarry - Arnold Schoenberg - Francis Picabia
Visual arts
- Impression, soleil levant (1872/1873) - Claude Monet
- Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, ca. 1875 James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Pornokrates (1879) - Félicien Rops
Music
- Danse Macabre (1874) - Camille Saint-Saëns
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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