Sagrada Família begun
Gaudí's basilica has been under construction for nearly 150 years
Work on the Basilica of the Holy Family began in 1882, and a year later Antoni Gaudí took over, devoting the rest of his life to it. Funded by donations, construction continues to this day.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 21 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 15 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 13 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 5 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 13 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 6 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 23 years later
Africa
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 13 years earlier
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 3 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 3 years later
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 3 years later
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 4 years later
Asia
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 6 years earlier
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 1 year later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 3 years later
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 9 years later
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 12 years later
Americas
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 15 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 13 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 6 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 3 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 6 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 11 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 73)
- Karl Marx (aged 64)
- Queen Victoria (aged 63)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 54)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 48)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 42)
- Thomas Edison (aged 35)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 29)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 26)
- Marie Curie (aged 15)