The treaty of St. Petersburg gave Russia sole control of Sakhalin Island (north of Japan) and gave Japan the Kuril Islands, both nations strengthening their Pacific Rim positions.
Congress passes a Civil Rights Act that prohibits racial discrimination in public accommodations and jury duty.
A new capital city, Budapest, is formed from the communities of Pest, Buda and Obuda. It became the co-capital with Vienna of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a center of prosperity and culture.
The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, enforcing federal or provincial policing.
New Zealand Wars end after 17 years when the Maori spiritual leader crosses the Waikato River and enters the territory of the king who grants him amnesty.
Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, President Grant’s defeated opponent, dies three weeks after the election.
Henry Stanley, a correspondent for the New York Herald , locates the missing Scottish explore and missionary near Lake Tanganyika in Africa, greeting him with, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
The German Empire is established by a number of small, independent states.
A struggle for power in Japan between the Tokugawa shogunate and the 15-year old emperor, Meiji, lasts two months. The Emperor is victorious, but foreign ministers force the agreement that harbors will be open with international treaties.
The Canadian Parliament has its first meeting in Ottawa, its capital city.
In Sweden, Alfred Nobel, a manufacturer of cannon and other armaments, invents dynamite. Condemned as the “merchant of death”, he bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes for advancement in areas such as culture, science and world peace.
