Natural History Museum opens in London
1881 · Event
Richard Owen's 'cathedral to nature' opens in South Kensington — the world's first national museum devoted to natural history.
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Around 1881
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Scramble for Africa (1881)
- German unification (1871)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Berlin Conference (1884)