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Madame Novikoff’s brother provides her with martyr
United States: Disputed election of President Rutherford, with support of robber Barons
July/Aug: Great Railroad Strike and Great Upheaval; Chaikovsky leaves Cedar Vale and is on the tramp; foundation of paramilitary Society for Education and Defense in Chicago; Edward Carpenter visits Walt Whitman in Camden
Other: Malatesta active in Egypt
     
     
Date: 1878
France: Verne publishes The Begum’s Millions ; Exposition Universelle in Paris: much of best work from exiled Communards; retirement of President MacMahon, succeeded by Jules Grévy
Russia: Trial of the 193 produces mixed result, followed by repression
24 Jan: Zasulich attempts to assassinate General Trepov
4 Aug: Kravchinsky assassinates General Mezentsev
Britain: Disraeli attracts anti-Semitic comment in Russia for his role in Berlin Congress
Dec: Most starts publishing Freiheit
Other European:
Italy: Jan: Death of King Victor Emmanuel brings amnesty for socialist prisoners;
Feb: Death of Pope Pius IX
Germany: May: Hoedel attempt on life of Kaiser Wilhelm, followed by that of Nobeling. Severe crackdown results. Expulsion of Johann Most
Italy: Attempt on life of Umberto I by Passanante; Pope Leo XIII inveighs against ‘Deadly pestilence of communism’
Spain: Attempt on life of Alfonso XII
United States:
Other: June: Kanack revolt in New Caledonia brutally suppressed by April 1879
     
     
Date: 1879
France: Retirement of President MacMahon
July: Amnesty of exiled Communards agreed
Russia: 9 Feb: Assassination of Dmitri Kropotkin, governor of Kharkov; wave of strikes in St Petersburg; Rachkovsky recruited as informant by Third Section
April: Attempt on life of Alexander II in Winter Palace garden by Soloviev; birth of group Freedom or Death
June: Voronezh Congress, radicals adopt strategy of violence, out of which the People’s Will founded in Aug
Nov . Failed bomb attack on tsar’s train
Britain:
Other European: Kropotkin and Reclus publish Le Révolté ; Malatesta forced out of Switzerland under threat of arrest
United States: Benjamin Tucker begins publication of Liberty
Other: Nationalist revolt in Egypt; tension high between Russia and Britain on Afghan border
     
     
Date: 1880
France: Feb: Arrest of Lev Hartmann, would-be assassin of tsar, deported to England
May: Violent demonstration in Père Lachaise on anniversary of Bloody Week
June: Return of Henri Rochefort from Swiss exile
Nov . Return of Louise Michel from New Caledonia
Russia: Feb: Bomb in Winter Palace kills many guards; near-dictatorial powers for Loris-Melikov
June: Death of tsarina and tsar’s remarriage to mistress Catherine Dolgorukaya; appointment of Loris-Melikov as chief of the Supreme Administrative Commission; attempt on his life
Oct: Trial of the Sixteen, three of whom executed for conspiracy; police reform: Third Section disabled to be replaced by Okhrana
Britain: April: return of Gladstone, Madame Novikoff’s friend, as prime minister; corruption scandal in British and Belgian police prompts reform
Other European: Reclus publishes pamphlet Evolution and Revolution
Oct: Kropotkin and Reclus in Switzerland prepare agenda for London Congress
Germany: Cologne Cathedral completed after 600 years; Belfort Bax attends ceremony
United States:
Other: Young Egypt active in nationalist cause, on model of Young Italy
     
     
Date: 1881
France: Jan: Funeral of Blanqui, Michel delivers oration; France occupies Tunisia; first issue of shares in Panama Canal
Oct: Bomb thrown into Bellecour Theatre in strike-bound Lyons
Dec: Short-lived Gambetta premiership
Russia: 1 March: Assassination of tsar
10 March: Letter of executive committee to Alexander III; trial of conspirators and execution of five leading figures
April: Anti-Jewish pogroms sweep the south; creation of the Holy Brotherhood
Britain: Jan: Fenian bomb attack on Salford barracks, then in March on Mansion House
June: London Anarchist Congress
18 June: Trial of Johann Most, arrested March