1896 - first modern Olympics is held in Athens

USA topped the table with 11 golds but Greece amassed the most medals with 47 dwarfing USA's 20.

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1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.
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Sorry for messing up the post count. I'll do two.

Also wanted to note I did not know about Charlie Chaplin, Hitler, and Wittgenstein all being born in the same month of the same year. That's very... cosmically epic.

1894 - Aforementioned Franco-Russian alliance encircles Germany. Letters detailing the alliance state that, in the event of an attack by Germany on Russia or France, Russia is to send 700,000 troops to fight, and France is to send 1,300,000 troops to fight.

In trying to find more information leading to the events of WWI....

1895 - Japanese and Chinese conclude Treaty of Shimonoseki among various European powers expressing self-interests and resulting in recognition of Korean independence and surrendering Port Arthur and Liaotung Peninsula to Japan; Russians upset over Japanese gains

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1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.
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:!: This is the most American thing I've ever heard :!:

1893

France and Russia created their defensive pact, which would later become the Triple Entente once Britain joined a little over a decade later. Below is the original text of the agreement, 1893 is when it was finalized and publicized.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/frrumil.asp

(since the classic map of this game is based on WWI, until we hit 1914 we should find stuff that lead to the outbreak of that war)

1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.

1891 January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893

January 15, 1890 – Ballet The Sleeping Beauty, with music by Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1889

Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein all born in April

1888-1888 North Canterbury earthquake in new zealand happens. the incredibly creative name is inspired by the location of the epicenter of the earthquake (the North Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Hanmer), and, get this, the year the earthquake took place, the aforementioned 1888. Motion to award the prestigious and most creatively named "Creative Name Award For Naming Something Creatively In A Creative Fashion, Just Like This Award's Name" award to this earthquake?

1887 - Schrodinger is/isn't born

1886 – An American mastermind mixes cocaine with caffeine to make Coca-Cola.*

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1884 - November 15 – The Berlin Conference, which carved up Africa for European colonization and trade, begins (ends February 26, 1885).
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1885 - February 26 - The Berlin Conference finishes discussion and carves up Africa for European colonization and trade, causing many conflicts over native land continuing to the modern day.

1884 - November 15 – The Berlin Conference, which carved up Africa for European colonization and trade, begins (ends February 26, 1885).

1883 (TV Mini Series 2021–2022)
The post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon

11101011010, (1882 in binary), was the year that the Triple Alliance was formed. Nothing wrong could come of an alliance!

Right?

1881 End of the first Boer war.

1880: On 28 June Victorian police captured bushranger Ned Kelly after a siege at the Glenrowan Inn. The other members of the Kelly Gang — Dan Kelly, Joseph Byrne and Steve Hart — were killed in the siege. The gang was wanted for the murders of three police officers at Stringybark Creek in 1878.

The 1879 FA Cup final was contested by Old Etonians and Clapham Rovers at the Kennington Oval in London. Old Etonians won by 1–0, the only goal scored by Charles Clerke.

1878 Treaty of St. Stephen: After (another) war between Russia and the Ottomans, the latter had to cede Rumania's independence and also recognise Bulgaria as a state with enlarged borders reaching the Aegean Sea. The Berlin Council of 1881 curtailed these borders, cutting Bulgaria from the Sea. The decisions of these two agreements were the seeds from which the Balkan Wars came.

1877, the year Romania declared independence from the Ottoman empire.