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Reference Page
. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/this-day-in-politics-june-2-1886-223731 https://abc7ny.com/brooklyn-bridge-this-day-in-history-today-built/1350965/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boer_War https://www.biography.com/writer/ralph-waldo-emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ahmad https://www.newscientist.com/people/robert-koch/#:~:text=Dr%20Robert%20Koch%20was%20a,identify%20many%20more%20important%20pathogens. -
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First Anglo-Boar War
First Anglo-Boer War, the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, was a war fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal, South African War, thereby acknowledging that all South Africans, white and black, were affected by the war and that many were participants. The republicans acquired the name Boers. The Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmers.The war resulted in a Boer victory and eventual independence of the South African Republic. -
France declares Tunisia a protectorate
Tunisia was called Ifrīqiyyah in the early centuries of the Islamic period. That name, in turn, comes from the Roman word for Africa and the name also given by the Romans to their first African colony following the Punic Wars against the Carthaginians in 264–146 BCE. From that time until the establishment of the French protectorate in 1881, Tunisian rulers had to placate the larger powers while working to strengthen the state from within. -
Czar Alexander III his believed against jaws
He was highly reactionary and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II. Alexander III condemned the influence of Western culture, ideas, and liberalist reforms supported by his father. He believed that Russia had lost its domineering role in Eastern Europe due to Western liberalism. Alexander III believes that Jews are the killers of Christ. Pogroms against Jews have been spreading across Russia's empire. They are being expelled from Moscow and are fleeing the empire. -
James Garfield's murderd
The President of the United States, James Garfield was shot by a disgruntled office-seeker. Doctors repeatedly poke their fingers into the bullet hole looking for the bullet, causing an infection. Garfield dies on September 19. Garfield's assassin was Charles J. Guiteau, whose motive was revenge against Garfield for an imagined political debt, and getting Chester A. Arthur elevated to president. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. -
Racial segregation on railroad in Tennessee
Railroad companies required to furnish separate cars for colored passengers who pay first-class rates. Cars to be kept in good repair, and subject to the same rules governing other first-class cars for preventing smoking and obscene language. Penalty: If companies fail to enforce the law required to pay a forfeit of $100, half to be paid to the person suing, the other half to be paid to the state’s school fund. The law was goung be penalty $300 fine payable to the public school fund. -
The Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil gained a monopoly in the oil industry by buying rival refineries and developing companies for distributing and marketing its products around the globe. Standard Oil Trust created a network of Standard Oil companies throughout the country, led by a board of trustees, where Rockefeller owned over one third of the certificates. By the late 1880s, Standard Oil controlled 90% of American refineries. Rockefeller himself owned one-third of Standard Oil's stock, worth about $20 million. -
Austria-Hungary joined Germany for strong side.
Austria-Hungary joins Germany's alliance with Russia, a move encouraged by Bismarck, who hopes that Russia and Austria-Hungary will manage their rivalry in the Balkans. The treaty provided that Germany and Austria-Hungary were to assist Italy if it were attacked by France without Italian provocation; Italy would assist Germany if Germany were attacked by France. The two powers promised each other support in case of attack by Russia, and neutrality in case of aggression by any other power. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson the essayist
Ralph Waldo was an American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher and essayist during the 19th century. One of his best-known essays is "Self-Reliance". Transcendentalists advocated the idea of a personal knowledge of God, believing that no intermediary was needed for spiritual insight. They embraced idealism, focusing on nature and opposing materialism. Emerson was found to be suffering from pneumonia. He died six days later. Emerson is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts. -
Robert Koch’s discoved Bacteria shapes.
He discovered the anthrax disease cycle (1876) and the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis. Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and his methods enabled others to identify many more important pathogens. Thanks to his contributions to the field, he is sometimes known as the father of bacteriology, a title shared with Louis Pasteur -
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883. German engineer John A. Roebling was hired to design the bridge. During the construction of the golden bridge Martin detailed the accidental deaths of 27 workers, although master mechanic E.F. Farrington estimated the number could be as high as 40. He was chosen because he was known for perfecting the suspension bridge by adding a web truss on either side for stabilization. It took 14 years and costed 15millions, nowaday it will be around 320M. -
King Mwanga's homosexual
At the age of 16 on October 18, 1884, Mwanga II Basammula Ekkere became king the king of Uganda. During his reign he was known to have regular relations with women as well as his male subjects. In Uganda, Christians object to the King Mwanga's homosexual relations with young boys and men who serve him as pages and attendants. Mwanga has numerous Christians put to death, some by burning. Christians arm themselves and ally with local Muslims in a civil war against Mwanga. -
Eurepan Power divided africa
On the afternoon of Saturday, November 15, 1884, European powers meet in Berlin and make agreements concerning Africa. They give King Leopold of Belgium control of the Congo. Germany acquires what is today Tanzania as a protectorate. Britain annexes what today is Botswana and approves Germany's position in Southwest Africa and the interior of Cameroon. France is colonizing Central Africa and establishes a little colony on the northern tip of Madagascar. -
Muhammed Ahmed the Mahdi
Muhammed die by age of 40, as a youth, studied Sunni Islam. In 1881, he claimed to be the Mahdi. The Mahdi remains a respected figure in the history of Sudan. He claimed to be the Mahdi. He led a successful war against Ottoman-Egyptian military rule in Sudan and achieved a remarkable victory over the British, in the Siege of Khartoum. He created a vast Islamic state extending from the Red Sea to Central Africa, and founded a movement that remained influential in Sudan a century later. -
Germany buy island from spain
Germany lobbied the Spanish government to facilitate the sale of the islands to Germany. The islands were first inhabited by migratory people from Southeast Asia. Germany buys some of the Marshall Islands from Spain, a transaction mediated by Pope Leo XIII. In doing so it illustrates how this former Spanish territory morphed into a German one and discusses the significance of this transformation, and how it helped lay the groundwork for the beginning of the Second Reich -
President Cleveland weds in white house
On this day in 1886, Grover Cleveland, then serving as the nation’s 22nd president, married Frances Folsom, daughter of his late law partner and friend Oscar Folsom. Fewer than 40 people were present in the White House Blue Room to witness the 49-year-old president exchange wedding vows with Frances, who, at 21, became the youngest first lady in U.S. history and the first bride to be married in what was then known as the Executive Mansion... -
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Italo Ethopian first war
Ethiopians are fighting Italy's attempt at colonization. The Italians remain in Eritrea.Ethiopia defeated the Italian colonial army in the Battle of Adwa. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale, which the Italians claimed turned Ethiopia into an Italian protectorate. Full-scale war broke out in 1895, with Italian troops from Italian Eritrea having initial success until Ethiopian troops counterattacked Italian positions and besieged the Italian fort of Mekele, forcing its surrender -
The yellow river flood
Huang He River, which is also called the Yellow River, is responsible for most hazardous floods in China. The river is three thousand miles long, running from Qinghai province in the northern mountain to the Yellow Sea, which is situated between China and Korea. Thanks to the massive property destruction and the loss of live it has caused, the river has been dubbed ‘’China’s Sorrow’’ by westerners. In 1887 alone, 900,000 people died in the floods. -
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Wovoka with ghost dance
An Indian named Wovoka foresees a messiah rescuing Indians and killing all whites. The Paiute named Wovoka prophesied the extinction of white people and the return of the old-time life and superiority of the Indians. Acceptance of the vision spreads and is associated with a "ghost dance." Without foundation, whites fear that Sitting Bull, now an old man, will lead a rebellion, and Sitting Bull is shot and killed. About 500 US soldiers massacre 300 or so men, women and children at Wounded Knee. -
North and south Dakota
The name was taken from that of the Dakota or Sioux Indian Tribe. There was also a bit of a personality difference between the two regions: the south thought the north was a bit disreputable. North Dakota and South Dakota Were Admitted to the Union. After controversy over the location of a capital, the Dakota Territory was split in two and divided into North and South in 1889. Later that year, on November 2, North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states. -
Brazil overthow the monachy
Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca, who had led the coup, became provisional president of the military-led government with the support of the nascent middle class and the prosperous coffee planters. He established a republic, separated the powers of church and state, and on February 24, 1891, promulgated a new constitution that combined elements of presidential, federal, democratic, and republican forms of government. The new states of the republic exercised more power than had the empire’s provinces.