The next decade ….
1871 Heinrich Schliemann begins the excavation of Troy
1873 The British close the Zanzibar slave market.
1874 The Remington Arms Company begins to manufacture typewriters
Mary Outerbridge introduces the British the sport of lawn tennis into the United States
1875 Britian buys Ismail Pashas share of the Suez Canal
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1877 Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India
Giovanni Schiaparelli describes the channels (canali, later mistranslated to “canals”) on Mars
1879 The Zulu War: Rebellious Zulus massacre British soldiers at Isandlwhana, but are eventually defeated. In an incident of the war, the exiled French Imperial, Napoleon, is ambushed by Zulu warriors and killed.
Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light
