Congress of Berlin
Europe redraws the Balkans after the Russo-Turkish War
Under Bismarck's chairmanship the Great Powers revised the outcome of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania became independent, Bulgaria autonomous, and Russia lost part of its gains.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 17 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 11 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 9 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 1 year earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 17 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 9 years earlier
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 1 year later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 7 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 7 years later
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 8 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 25 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 10 years earlier
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 2 years earlier
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 5 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 7 years later
Americas
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 11 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 9 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 2 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 1 year later
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 10 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 15 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 69)
- Karl Marx (aged 60)
- Queen Victoria (aged 59)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 57)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 50)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 44)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 38)
- Thomas Edison (aged 31)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 25)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 22)