Assassination of Alexander II
A People's Will bomb kills the tsar and ends the reform era
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On 13 March 1881 members of Narodnaya Volya threw bombs at the carriage of Emperor Alexander II. The tsar who had freed the serfs was mortally wounded; his successor Alexander III reversed the course of reform.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 20 years earlier
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — 3 years earlier
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 5 years later
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 8 years later
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 5 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 24 years later
Africa
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 12 years earlier
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 2 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 4 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 4 years later
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 5 years later
Asia
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 13 years earlier
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 5 years earlier
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 2 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 4 years later
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 10 years later
Americas
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 14 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 12 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 5 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 2 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 7 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 12 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 12 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 72)
- Karl Marx (aged 63)
- Queen Victoria (aged 62)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 60)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 53)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 47)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 41)
- Thomas Edison (aged 34)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 28)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 25)