| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Rossetti publishes poems |  | Keble college, Oxford founded
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Burne-Jones begins affair with Maria Zambaco; resigns from Old Water Colour Society after criticism of Phyllis and Demophoön
| Franco-Prussian War begins, with heavy defeats for the French
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| | Metropolitan Museum of Art founded, New York
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Burne-Jones visits Sistine Chapel, Rome
|  | Paris Commune rules France for two months
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Munro dies
| Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man
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Morris and Rossetti share Kelmscott Manor; Rossetti spends summer with Jane Morris while Morris is in Iceland
| Trade Unions Act legalises unions in Britain |
Buchanan attacks Rossetti in his article The Fleshy School of Poetry
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Rossetti & Morris: stained-glass windows, St George and the Dragon
|  | First International soccer game, England vs Scotland
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Rossetti suffers a nervous breakdown after Buchanan's article reprinted
| Ballot Act in Britain institutes voting by secret ballot
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| | Brooklyn Bridge opens
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Solomon convicted of homosexual offences; sentence subsequently suspended
|  | Jospeh Chamberlain elected Mayor of Birmingham
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Burne-Jones makes fourth visit to Italy
| Van Gogh lives in England
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| | Financial Panic in New York
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| | Colour photographs first developed
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Brown's daughter Lucy marries William Michael Rossetti; his son Oliver dies aged twenty
|  | Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
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| | First Impressionist Exhibition held in Paris
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| | Britain annexes Fiji Islands
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Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company dissolved; Morris and Company founded, with Morris in full control
|  | Housing and Public Health Acts passed in Britain
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| | London's main sewer system completed
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Morris publishes Sigurd the Volsung, an epic poem inspired by his visits to Iceland
|  | Custer's Last Stand: Custer and 200 soldiers killed by Sioux Indians at Little Bighorn
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| | Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India
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| | Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
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Morris helps found Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
|  | Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
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Rossetti: Beata Beatrix
| First public telephones in the USA
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Grosvenor Gallery founded, provides an alternative to the Royal Academy; eight works exhibited there by Burne-Jones cause a sensation
| Third Impressionist Exhibition in Paris
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| | Manchester Town Hall completed
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Millais awarded Légion d'Honneur
|  | Invention of microphone
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Brown begins murals for Manchester Town Hall
| Exposition Universelle in Paris
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Burne-Jones: 'Pygmalion and the Image'
| Electric street lighting in London
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| |  | British Zulu War in southern Africa
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| | London's first telephone exchange established
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1870s 
