1877. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston open in and after March on Sundays.
1878. Anti-clerical resolution passed by Woman Suffrage Convention, Rochester, N. Y., July; split of Liberal League at Syracuse, N. Y., Sunday, October 27th; Professor Winchell obliged to leave Nashville, Tenn., for evolutionism.
1879. Specie payment resumed in U. S. A., January 1st; death of Garrison, May 24th; Henry George's Progress and Poverty published.
1880. Bradlaugh refused his seat in Parliament, May 21st; many patriots banished to Siberia.
1881. Czar Alexander II. assassinated, March 13th, anti-Jewish mobs on and after April 27th; Bradlaugh excluded by force, August 1st.
1882. Death of Longfellow, March 24th, of Darwin, April 18th, of Emerson, April 27th, and of Garibaldi, June 2d.
1883. Foote and Ramsay, English journalists, sentenced respectively to twelve and nine months in prison for blasphemy.
1884. Death of Wendell Phillips; February 2d; Cleveland elected President, November 4th; Professor Woodrow dismissed from Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C, for teaching evolution, December 12th.
1885. Death of Victor Hugo, May 20th, and of General Grant, July 23d.
1886. Bradlaugh takes his seat, January 13th; railroad strike in