1880s

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Events and Trends

• About 300 000 Swedes emigrate to the United States.
• First Boer War
• First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings.
• First steel frame construction "sky-scrapers"
• The New Imperialism

Science and technology

• James-Lange theory of emotion
• Development and commercial production of electric lighting
• Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach

World Leaders

• Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
• Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald (Canada)
• Emperor Wilhelm I (Germany)
• Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany)
• Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (Germany)
• King Umberto I (Italy)
• Pope Leo XIII
• Emperor Alexander II (Russia)
• Emperor Alexander III (Russia)
• Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)
• Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (United Kingdom)
• Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom)
• President Rutherford B. Hayes (United States)
• President Chester A. Arthur (United States)
• President Grover Cleveland (United States)

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