"Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
Stanley's famous line was most likely invented later
On 10 November 1871 the New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley found the missing explorer David Livingstone at Ujiji. 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' is not in his journal: the two pages after the meeting were torn out, and historians think he made the line up later.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 10 years earlier
- 1871 Unification of Germany — same year
- 1871 Paris Commune — same year
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 15 years later
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 10 years earlier
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — 7 years earlier
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 4 years earlier
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 2 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 6 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 5 years later
Asia
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 18 years earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 3 years earlier
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 5 years later
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 12 years later
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 14 years later
Americas
- 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — 6 years earlier
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — 4 years earlier
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — 2 years earlier
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 5 years later
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 8 years later
Oceania
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — 20 years earlier
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 22 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 62)
- Karl Marx (aged 53)
- Queen Victoria (aged 52)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 50)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 43)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 37)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 31)
- Thomas Edison (aged 24)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 18)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 15)