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Events in Newman's lifeEvents in the UKEvents in the wider world
  • Death of Louisa Deane.
  • Death of Lord Denbigh.
  • Death of Fr Nicholas Darnell.
  • Death of Cardinal Manning and elevation of Herbert Vaughan as 3rd Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle publishes the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collection of 12 stories.
  • Gladstone forms his 4th and final government.
  • Tchaikovsky's nutcracker premieres in Saint Petersburg.
  • Lizzie Borden charged with the murder of her parents, but later acquitted.
  • The General Electric Company formed.
  • Ellis Island opened as a US immigration station.