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The 1890s also saw further developments in the history of the automobile. Panhard-Levassor (1890–1895). This model was the first automobile to circulate in Portugal. 1890s: Bike boom sweeps Europe and America with hundreds of bicycle manufacturers in the biggest bicycle craze to date. 1890: Clément Ader of Muret, France creates his Ader ...
4 March: Forth Bridge is opened. 4 January – first edition of the Daily Graphic, the first British 'picture paper'. [1]11 January – the British government delivers an ultimatum to Portugal forcing the retreat of Portuguese military forces from land between Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.
The great depression of British agriculture occurred during the late nineteenth century and is usually dated from 1873 to 1896. [1] Contemporaneous with the global Long Depression, Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation in the 1870s and the advent of cheap transportation with the ...
In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...
American sentiment towards England and the British Empire was harshly negative for much of the 19th century. [1] Enmity between the two nations, largely driven from the American side, had peaked amid the American Civil War and the Trent affair. After 1872 and the settlement of the Alabama claims, direct hostilities declined.
Hughes is best known for a series of four memoirs, A London Child of the 1870s (1934), A London Girl of the 1880s (1936), A London Home in the 1890s (1937), and A London Family Between the Wars (1940). Hughes's stated purpose in these books is "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as is usually supposed".
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1800 AD until 1899 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.
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