Jack the Ripper murders
London papers turn an unknown killer into a celebrity
In the autumn of 1888 five women were murdered in London's poor Whitechapel district; the killer, dubbed Jack the Ripper by the papers, was never caught. It was one of the first crimes turned into a mass-media sensation, and over a hundred suspects have been named since.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 19 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 11 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 7 years later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 17 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 12 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 17 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 20 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 20 years later
Africa
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 9 years earlier
- 1882 Britain occupies Egypt — 6 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 3 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 3 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 2 years earlier
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 5 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 3 years earlier
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 3 years later
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 6 years later
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 6 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 12 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 9 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — same year
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 15 years later
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 5 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 5 years later
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 23 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 24 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 69)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 60)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 54)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 48)
- Thomas Edison (aged 41)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 35)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 32)
- Marie Curie (aged 21)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 19)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 18)