DATE
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UNITED KINGDOM
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REST OF THE WORLD
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DUDLEY
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AGE
OF
ST JOHN’S
CHURCH
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ST JOHN’S CHURCH
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1877
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· First test cricket match, England and Australia
· First lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon
· Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
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· Fingerprinting used for first time in India, to ensure that people did not draw their pension more than once
· First shipment of refrigerated meat, Argentina to Europe
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37 years old
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1878
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· First weekly weather report published
· Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone to Queen Victoria
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· Alternator invented, France
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38 years old
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1879
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· Zulu war between Zulus and Britain - battle of Ulundi - Zulus defeated
· British Legation at Kabul massacred. Britain invades Afghanistan
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· Irish Land League formed to campaign for independence from Britain
· Vaseline Petroleum Jelly launched, USA
· First supermarket, USA
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39 years old
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1880
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· Clay Pigeon shooting invented
· First Boer war, British forces defeated at Bronkhorstpruit
· George Eliot, writer, dies
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· First tinned baked beans, USA
· First wristwatches, worn by women only as thought by men to be effeminate
· Captain Boycott is ‘boycotted’ for refusing to acceot rent fixed by his tenants, Ireland
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40 years old
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1881
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· Tribunal set up to examine excessive rents in Ireland
· Savoy Theatre opens and is first electrically lit building in London
· Benjamin Disraeli dies
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· Tsar Alexander III persecutes the Jews in Russia - millions emigrate
· Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots William Bonney (Billy the Kid) at Fort Sumner, Mexico
· Johann Spyri, Heidi
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41 years old
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· Tribute paid to the vicar Rev. Noott. At a meeting in the public hall he was presented with a cheque for £500 and a service of silver plate.
· He was referred to as a ‘faithful performer of all his duties, clerical and otherwise, one whose many acts of unobtrusiveness kindness and deeds of charity are hidden from the light’.
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1882
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· Government sends gunboat to Skye to deal with crofters resisting eviction (sheep clearances)
· Roderick Maclean tries to assasinate Queen Victoria
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· First transmission of electricity, Miesbach to Munich, Germany
· First electric trolley bus, Germany
· Judo invented, Japan
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42 years old
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1883
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· Married women obtain the right to acquire their own property
· Robert Louis Stephenson, Treasure Island
· Boys Brigade formed
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· Volcanoe Krakatoa, Sunda Strait erupts, 36,000 killed
· First incadescent light bulb, Thomas Edison
· Orient Express, first transcontinental train service
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43 years old
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1884
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· English surgeon Rickman Godlee, first operation to remove a brain tumour
· First part of the Oxford English Dictionary published
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· First automatic machine gun, USA
· First use of local anaesthetic, Austria
· Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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44 years old
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1885
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· Jeanette C. Pickersgill first person to be cremated
· Professional football (soccer) legalised
· Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado opens at the Savoy
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· Frenchman Louis Pasteur gives first inoculation against rabies
· Spark plug invented, France
· Karl Benz builds first motor car, Germany
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45 years old
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1886
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· Squash recognised as a sport
· Cosmopolitan , Magazine, first published
· Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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· First oil tanker, Germany
· Coca-Cola invented, USA
· First dishwashing machine, USA
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46 years old
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· May 5th, 1886 new organ opened, built by Messrs P. Conacher & Co of Huddersfield. A newspaper article said it was the third organ placed in the church.
· At the dedication service the sermon was preached by the Dean of Worcester Dr Gott and a large congregation took part in the service which was fully choral
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