Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878
Shipka, Plevna and freedom for Bulgaria
Russia went to war in April 1877, after the brutal suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising. After the defence of Shipka and the five-month siege of Plevna the Russian army reached Istanbul; the Treaty of San Stefano created a Greater Bulgaria, later cut down at the Congress of Berlin, and Romania, Serbia and Montenegro became independent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 16 years earlier
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — 13 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 10 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 8 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — same year
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 1 year earlier
Africa
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 8 years earlier
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 2 years later
- 1882 Britain occupies Egypt — 5 years later
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 8 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 8 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 24 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 9 years earlier
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 1 year earlier
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 6 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 8 years later
Americas
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 10 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 8 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 1 year earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 2 years later
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 11 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 16 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 68)
- Karl Marx (aged 59)
- Queen Victoria (aged 58)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 56)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 49)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 43)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 37)
- Thomas Edison (aged 30)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 24)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 21)