PEACH

History

1874

Population: 1.33 Billion*

Crime: Tichborne claimant Arthur Orton found guilty of perjury
Entertainment: Writers include Alarcon, Flaubert, Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd), Victor Hugo, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Masochism), Verlaine, Ernst Haeckel, Henry Sidgwick
Art includes Max Liebermann's "Women Plucking Geese", Renoir "La Loge"
Music includes Brahms, Hermann Gotz, Mussorgsky, Smetana, Johann Strauss II (Die Fledermaus), Verdi's "Requiem"
"Evangeline" plays as Burlesque/Vaudeville performance
Fashion: Levi's riveted blue jeans created
Science: Billroth discovers streptococci and staphylococci
AT Still founds osteopathy
Hansen first makes clinical description of leprosy
Technology: H Solomon introduces pressure-cooking for canning
Barbed wire invented
Deaths: Composer Peter von Cornelius,

General: End of war between Asante and British in Africa (Ashanti war)
Fante Confederacy falls to Britain
Gold Coast: (Ghana) British colony to 1957
Mali: Beginnings of Mande state in old Mali under Samori Ture
Zanzibar: Hurricane destroys 150 ships

Canada: Sighting of monster Ponik in Lake Pohenegamook – manatee-like with black spiny fin
Mexico: Exiled Santa Anna returns

France: Paris opens exhibition on impressionist painting - first
Paris Opera completed
French Salon rejects impressionists and they start independent exhibits for twelve years
Germany: Civil marriage compulsory
Great Britain: End of first reign of Gladstone as British Prime Minister - Disraeli's second and last government of Britain begins and lasts 6 years
Home rule granted in Ireland
Prince of Wales (future King Edward VII) visits France
Lawn tennis invented in Britain
Factory Act in Britain reduces working day to ten hours
Greece: Excavation of Olympia begins
Spain: Alfonse XII son of Queen Isabella II proclaimed King - monarchy restored
Switzerland: Swiss Constitution revised
Union Generale des Postes established in Berne
Education compulsory