Eiffel Tower
A temporary fair attraction becomes the symbol of Paris
Gustave Eiffel's 300-metre tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair, marking the centenary of the Revolution. It was due to be dismantled after 20 years but was saved by its use as a radio antenna.
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The Eiffel Tower opened in spring 1889, and in June van Gogh painted The Starry Night at the Saint-Rémy asylum. He himself thought it a failure.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 25 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 20 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 12 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 6 years later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 16 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 13 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 16 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 19 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 19 years later
Africa
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 10 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 4 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 4 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 3 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 8 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 6 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 4 years earlier
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 2 years later
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 5 years later
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 5 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 13 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 10 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 1 year earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 14 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 25 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 4 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 4 years later
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 22 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 70)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 61)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 55)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 49)
- Thomas Edison (aged 42)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 36)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 33)
- Marie Curie (aged 22)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 20)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 19)