Queen Victoria went to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
In her Golden Jubilee year of 1887, the cowboys and Native performers gave over 300 shows in London and sold more than 2.5 million tickets.
More amazing facts
- 1886 The Statue of Liberty was a shiny reddish brown, like a new penny.
- 1886 Coca-Cola was invented by a pharmacist as a medicine.
- 1887 · 1888 The pneumatic tyre was invented by a vet for his son's tricycle.
- 1888 · 1896 · 1901 Alfred Nobel read his own obituary eight years before he died.
- 1888 · 1997 A woman who met Van Gogh lived into the internet age. Jeanne Calment recalled the painter visiting her uncle's shop in Arles in 1888; she died in 1997 aged 122, the longest confirmed human life.
- 1888 · 1890 Around 1890 nearly 20 tonnes of mummified cats were shipped to England as fertiliser.