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1875

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- Prince of Wales visits India

- Public Health Act is passed

- The “Hermes” of Praxiteles found at Olympia, Greece

- Britain buys 176,602 Suez Canal shares from the Khedive of Egypt

- London Medical School for Women founded

- Mme. Blavatsky (Helena Petrovna) founds the Theosophical Society in New York

- Georges Bizet premieres “Carmen” in Paris

- William S. Gilbert & Arthur S. Sullivan premiere their first operetta, “Trial by Jury”

- Heinrich Schliemann publishes Troy and Its Remains

- Mark Twain (Samuel Clements) publishes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

- Mary Baker Eddy publishes Science and Health

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1876

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- Ethiopians defeat Egyptian forces at Gura

- Serbia declares war on Turkey

- Montenegro declares war on Turkey

- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

3/7 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

3/10 First intelligible sentence over the telephone

- Sioux War for the Black Hills begins

5/10 Opening of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia; Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison demonstrate their inventions, the telephone and automatic telegraph

- Invention of the first typewriter; first demonstrated at the Centennial Exposition

6/25 Battle of Little Bighorn; Gen. George Armstrong Custer and all of the 7th Cavalry killed by combined Lakota and Cheyenne forces under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

8/1 Colorado becomes 38^th state of the U.S.

8/2 William Butler ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok shot dead in a card game in Deadwood, South Dakota

- Disraeli made Earl of Beaconsfield

- Bulgaria revolts against the Ottoman Empire

- Melville R. Bissell invents the carpet sweeper

- Henry James publishes Roderick Hudson