1887 - Schrodinger is/isn't born

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

* Not entirely accurate.

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

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.

1876: novel about that year's U.S. presidential election

1875, the first four notes of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

1874- the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition give up the Admiral Tegetthoff, which got stuck in the ice southeast of Franz Josef Land. Taking boats on sledges with them, they walked south on the ice for several weeks. When they could see the ship again as the north drift had carried them back, parts of the crew wanted to return to the ship and die there. However, as later painted by Julius Payer, head of the expedition, the captain Carl Weyprecht, took stand in front of the demoralized crew with the bible in the hand, proclaiming never go back. So they tried once more and indeed reached the open sea, where they were found by Russian whalers. After though negotiations, in return for the three boats, two guns and 1200 rubles they where shipped to Norway.

1873: the 287th prime number, and has a sine of .57350535004

1872: Yellowstone becomes the US's first national park

1*8=7+1

1870 is a 1972 drama film, set in Ancient Rome, directed by Alfredo Giannetti and starring Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, and Osvaldo Ruggieri.

1869- Trans-Continental Railroad was completed in the United States

1868-start of the boshin war