Pre-Raphaelite Events Year Other Events   Metropolitan Museum of Art opened, New York   Electric street lighting in New York       Morris & Company moved to Merton Abbey, Surrey Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, opens Rossetti publishes Ballads and Sonnets and Poems City Populations: London 3.3 millionNew York 1.2 million Collinson dies         Rossetti dies; buried in churchyard at Birchington-on-Sea British occupy Cairo Morris joins Democratic Federation Beginnings of Psychoanalysis       Ruskin presents The Art of England, lectures on Pre-Raphaelitism First skyscraper (10 stories high) built in Chicago   Orient Express makes its first run between Paris and Istanbul   Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York       Morris helps found Socialist League International Meriden Conference, in Washington D.C. establishes global time zones   Oxford English Dictionary first published   First deep tube (underground) railway opens in London       Millais created a Baronet; first British artist so honoured School of Art & Museum & Art Gallery open in Birmingham Burne-Jones elected President of Royal Birmingham Society of Artists General Charles Gordon killed at Khartoum in Sudan   Louis Pasteur develops rabies vaccine       Burne-Jones exhibits at Royal Academy for first and last time Statue of Liberty dedicated Millais exhibits 159 works at Grosvenor Gallery; his picture Bubbles used to advertise Pear's soap New English Art Club, London, founded   Eighth & last Impressionist exhibition held in Paris   William Gladstone introduces Bill for Home Rule in Ireland         Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee       New Gallery breaks away from Grosvenor Gallery; Burne-Jones and Millais exhibit there Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society first presents works; Guild of Handicraft founded by C. R. Ashbee Inchbold dies Jack the Ripper murders six women in the East End of London   Financial Times first published in London       Millais helps found National Portrait Gallery Royal Charter gives Birmingham city status Ruskin suffers irreversible mental decline and cease to write Eiffel Tower built for Exposition Universelle in Paris Burne-Jones awarded Légion d'Honneur