An opera house in the Amazon
Rubber barons build an opera house in the jungle
Rubber-boom money built an opera house in Manaus, deep in the rainforest, which opened in 1896. Its roof tiles came from Alsace, its steel from Glasgow and its marble from Carrara, and the dome is clad in 36,000 tiles in the colours of the Brazilian flag.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 18 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 22 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 24 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 10 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 7 years earlier
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — 1 year earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 9 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 1 year earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 9 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 12 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 21 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 9 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 12 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 12 years later
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 19 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 20 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 11 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 11 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 10 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 1 year later
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 8 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 13 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 11 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 2 years earlier
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 2 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — same year
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 3 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 3 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 15 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 77)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 68)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 62)
- Thomas Edison (aged 49)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 40)
- Marie Curie (aged 29)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 27)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 26)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 25)
- Winston Churchill (aged 22)