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1.12 December

December 10 - The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck tries to ban Catholics from the political stage by introducing harsh laws concerning the separation of church and state

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University Tests Act removes religious tests at Oxford and Cambridge
Trade Union Act - British trade unions legalized
Heinrich Schliemann begins the excavation of Troy
Japan forms its own police force based on French model
George Biddell Airy discovers astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.
Abolition of the Han system in Japan
William Marcy Tweed serves his last year as the " Boss" of Tammany Hall.

2 Births

January 17 - David Earl Betty of the North Sea and of Brooksby , British admiral (d. 1936)
January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (d. 1940)
February 4 - Friedrich Ebert, president of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (d. 1919)
March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950)
May 3 - Walter Robinson Parr , British preacher
May 6 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914)
May 27 - Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
July 17 - Lyonel Charles Feininger, German painter.
July 25 - Richard Ernest Turner, Canadian lieutenant of the of the Royal Canadian Dragoons , awarded with the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Second Boer War.
August 19 - Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane
August 29 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
September 24 - Lottie Dod, English athlete
September 26 - Winsor McCay, United States comic creator and animator (d. 1934).
September 27 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer - Nobel prize (d. 1936)
December 9 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)
December 12 - Umenosuke Bessho , Japanese writer (d. 1945)
December 13 - Emily Carr, Canadian writer
Guangxu, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.

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