Van Gogh's The Starry Night
The view from an asylum window becomes an iconic painting
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in June 1889 at the asylum of Saint-Rémy, where he had admitted himself. He considered it a failure; today it hangs in New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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The Eiffel Tower opened in spring 1889, and in June van Gogh painted The Starry Night at the Saint-Rémy asylum. He himself thought it a failure.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 25 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 20 years earlier
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 12 years earlier
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 6 years later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 16 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 13 years earlier
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 16 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 19 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 19 years later
Africa
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 10 years earlier
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 4 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 4 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 3 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 8 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 6 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 4 years earlier
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — 2 years later
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 5 years later
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 5 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 13 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 10 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 1 year earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 14 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 25 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 4 years later
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 4 years later
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 22 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 70)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 61)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 55)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 49)
- Thomas Edison (aged 42)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 36)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 33)
- Marie Curie (aged 22)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 20)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 19)