Battle of Geok Tepe
Skobelev's troops storm the Teke fortress and pursue the fleeing
In January 1881, after a three-week siege, General Mikhail Skobelev's troops blew a breach in the wall and took the Teke Turkmen fortress. In the storming and the pursuit that followed, an estimated 14,000 Turkmens died, including women and children; Russian losses were several hundred. Akhal was annexed, and Turkmenistan marks 12 January as a day of remembrance.
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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
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — 17 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 14 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 12 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 4 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 14 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 5 years earlier
- 1879 Baku oil boom and Branobel — 2 years earlier
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Africa
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 2 years earlier
- 1882 Britain occupies Egypt — 1 year later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 4 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 4 years later
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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
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Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 12 years later
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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)