First Impressionist exhibition
Artists rejected by the Salon give a new movement its name
In April 1874 Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Morisot and others rejected by the official Salon exhibited in photographer Nadar's former studio. A critic mocked them as 'Impressionists' after Monet's Impression, Sunrise, and the name stuck.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 21 years earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 13 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 7 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 5 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 3 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 2 years later
Africa
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 5 years earlier
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 5 years later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 11 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 11 years later
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 12 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 21 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 6 years earlier
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 2 years later
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 9 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 11 years later
Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — 10 years earlier
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 7 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 5 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 2 years later
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 5 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 23 years earlier
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 19 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 19 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 65)
- Karl Marx (aged 56)
- Queen Victoria (aged 55)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 53)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 46)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 40)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 34)
- Thomas Edison (aged 27)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 21)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 18)