| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Morris publishes News from Nowhere, establishes Kelmscott Press
|  | Birmingham Guild of Handicraft founded; Grosvenor Gallery closes in London
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Burne-Jones Briar Rose exhibited to great acclaim
| First moving picture shows in New York
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Hunt begins his autobiography
| Global Influenza epidemics
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Emma Brown dies
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Pre-Raphaelite Loan Exhibition, Birmingham; opening address given by Morris, in presence of Hunt and Stephens
|  | Paul Gauguin settles in Tahiti
|
| | Clothing zips invented
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| Morris turns down position of Poet Laureate |  | William Gladstone serves as British Prime Minister for the fourth time
|
| Hunt visits Middle East for last time | |
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Burne-Jones resigns Associateship of Royal Academy
|  | Revolt against British South Africa Company in Matabele is crushed
|
Brown dies
| Art Nouveau appears in Europe
|
Campbell dies
| Henry Ford builds his first automobile
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Christina Rossetti dies
|  | Inheritance Tax introduced in Britain
|
Burne-Jones accepts Baronetcy
| Tower Bridge opens in London
|
Morris publishes How I Became a Socialis
| Beginnings of Dreyfus affair in France
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| |  | Future King George VI born
|
| | London School of Economics & National Trust founded
|
| | Inventions of radio telegraphy, motion-picture camera and safety razor
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Millais elected President of Royal Academy on death of Lord Leighton
|  | Annual Nobel Prizes established in physics, physiology & medicine, chemistry, literature and peace
|
Millais dies; buried in St Paul's Cathedral
| First modern Olympics held in Athens, Greece
|
Kelmscott Chaucer designed by Morris and Burne-Jones
| |
| Morris dies; buried in Kelmscott churchyard | |
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| Boyce dies |  | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
|
| | Sir Henry Tate donates Tate Gallery to British People
|
| | Discovery of the electron
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Burne-Jones dies, buried in Rottingdean churchyard
|  | USA declares war on Spain over Cuba; Americans destroy Spanish fleet at Manila
|
Sandys is a founder member of International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
| Glasgow School of Art opens; designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Kelmscott Press closes
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| |  | Boer War begins in South Africa between Britain and the Boers
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| | First Peace Conference at The Hague
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1890s 
