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| - | Trends and developments: Paris holds the ''[[Exposition Universelle (1889)|Exposition Universelle]]'' with the [[Eiffel tower]] as main attraction - [[Arts and Crafts Movement]] - [[Art Nouveau]] - start of the [[Decadent movement]] - manifesto of the [[Symbolist]] movement - peak popularity of [[music hall]]s - rise of [[Tin Pan Alley]] - introduction of [[phonograph]] - introduction of [[car]]s - [[Moulin Rouge]] - introduction of [[electric lighting]] - [[Jack the Ripper]] | + | Trends and developments: Paris holds the ''[[Exposition Universelle (1889)|Exposition Universelle]]'' with the [[Eiffel tower]] as main attraction. The [[Arts and Crafts movement]] is founded in England. [[Art Nouveau]] emerges. A group of French writers refer to themselves as [[Decadent movement|decadents]]. The manifesto of the [[Symbolist]] movement is pubished. Peak popularity of [[music hall]]s. Rise of [[Tin Pan Alley]]. Introduction of [[phonograph]] and [[car]]s. The [[Moulin Rouge]] opens its doors. [[Electric lighting]] is introduced.- [[Jack the Ripper]] |
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Trends and developments: Paris holds the Exposition Universelle with the Eiffel tower as main attraction. The Arts and Crafts movement is founded in England. Art Nouveau emerges. A group of French writers refer to themselves as decadents. The manifesto of the Symbolist movement is pubished. Peak popularity of music halls. Rise of Tin Pan Alley. Introduction of phonograph and cars. The Moulin Rouge opens its doors. Electric lighting is introduced.- Jack the Ripper
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Art and culture
- Friedrich Nietzsche publishes Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Fyodor Dostoevsky writes The Brothers Karamazov
- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- First edition of Oxford English Dictionary published
- Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his first Sherlock Holmes tale
- Frontispiece by Fernand Khnopff to Joséphin Péladan’s Istar (1888)
- Incoherents, Parisian art movement
- Flatland (1884), À rebours (1884), Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885), Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
Technology
- Development and commercial production of electric lighting
- Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile
- First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
- First steel frame construction of "sky-scrapers"
Other
- Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia, erupts cataclysmically; 36,000 people are killed, the majority by the resulting tsunami
Births
Guillaume Apollinaire - James Joyce - Virginia Woolf - Edgar Varèse - Franz Kafka - Sax Rohmer - Mussolini - Lon Chaney, Sr. - José Ortega y Gasset - Gaston Bachelard - D.H. Lawrence - Sylvia Beach
Deaths
Art
- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) - Seurat
- Skull with a Cigarette (1886) - Vincent van Gogh
Timeline
- 1880 Skene's glands discovered by Alexander Skene
- 1881 by 1881, the French government withdrew its support from the official Salons
- 1882 'Zuiderpershuis' built
- 1883 The Shapeless Polyp Floated along the Bank, a Sort of Hideous, Smiling Cyclops (1883) - Odilon Redon
- Théorie de la décadence (1883) byPaul Bourget, Essais de psychologie contemporaine (1883)
- 1884 Flatland (1880) - Edwin A. Abbott
- 1885 Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885) - Henry Spencer Ashbee
- 1886 Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
- 1887 Du Fétichisme dans l’amour 1887 - Alfred Binet
- 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his first victim
- 1889 Paris Exposition
- More than a million people took the elevator to the top of the Eiffel tower when it was opened at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. [May 2006]
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