Benz's first automobile
A petrol engine replaces the horse
On 29 January 1886 Karl Benz patented his three-wheeled petrol-driven Motorwagen, the first practical automobile. In 1888 Bertha Benz drove it over 100 km, proving its worth and launching the age of the car.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 19 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 17 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 9 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 9 years later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 10 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 19 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 22 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 22 years later
Africa
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 7 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 1 year earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 1 year earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — same year
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 11 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 3 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 1 year earlier
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 5 years later
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 8 years later
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 8 years later
Americas
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 17 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 10 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 7 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 2 years later
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 17 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 7 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 7 years later
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 67)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 58)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 52)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 46)
- Thomas Edison (aged 39)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 33)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 30)
- Marie Curie (aged 19)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 17)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 16)