PEACH

History

1875

Population: 1.34 Billion*

Entertainment: Writers include Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Heinrich Schliemann's "Troy and Its Remains", Tolstoy, Mary Baker Eddy's "Science and Health", Emile Laceleye (religion)
Art includes Menzel's "The Steel Mill", Monet's "Boating at Argenteuil"
Music includes Bizet's "Carmen", Ignaz Bruil, Gilbert and Sullivan's first operetta "Trial by Jury", Karl Goldmark, Tchaikovsky
Politics: Treaty of St. Petersburg between Japan and Russia
Science: PE Lecoq discovers element gallium
Technology: Bell invents the telephone
Deaths: Artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Poet Eduard Morike, Hans Christian Andersen, Artist Jean François Millet, Philosopher Friedrich Albert Lange, Composer Georges Bizet, Sewing machine engineer Isaace Merritt Singer, Author Charles Kingsley

Burma: Third Anglo-Burmese War
China: Kwang-Hsu becomes emperor
India: Prince of Wales visits
Japan: Legal code drawn up for 13 years - courts of law reformed
Exchange of Sakhalin with Russia for Kuril Islands

General: War breaks out in Baalkans and Herzegovinia - then Bulgaria Montenegro and Serbia all rebel against Turkish Sultan
Start of food slump in European farming due to food imports from Australia and US
Start of decade of founding Socialist states in Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovinia: Uprisings against Turkish rule - Sultan promises reforms
France: Third Republic organized
Gabrielle Rejane makes debut at the Theatre Vaudeville in Paris
Bizet's opera Carmen performed
Germany: Religious orders abiloshed in Prussia
Socialists organize
Great Britain: Rudimentary sewage system created reducing cholera threat
Public Health Act is passed
London Medical School for Women opened
First roller-skating rink opens in London
First swim across English Channel by Captain Matthew Webb
Irish nationalist Parnel filibusters to prevent discussion of anything but Irish question
Greece: The "Hermes" of Praxiteles found at Olympia Greece
Switzerland: Universal Postal Union set up in Berne starting international mail service

Ottoman Empire: Decline of Turks
Eastern crisis begins when Bosnia and Herzegovina rebel against Turks