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#OnThisDay in 1876 #Moriarty steals Duchess of Devonshire (most expensive painting ever). Thief, reputed to be Adam Worth, was possibly Conan Doyle's model for #Sherlock villain

#OnThisDay in 1876 HMS Challenger arrives back in UK after 68,890 nautical miles, 1,606 days, 4,500 new species & discovery of Mariana Trench

#OnThisDay in 1876 Charles Parnell @UKParliament spoke up against Prime Minister Disraeli. Irishmen had been convicted of murder NOT because they were political but because they were #Irish. Parnell was using democracy to try & change British involvement in Ireland

#OnThisDay in 1876 Ladies' National Temperance Conference held in Faringdon #London, Sir Henry Thompson says he is quite alive “to the agreeable exhilaration which follows a moderate dose of good champagne”. Temperance was never going to make it in England like US Prohibition

#OnThisDay in 1876 gold medal for trans-Africa explorer Lieutenant Verney Lovett Cameron at Royal Geographical Society gala dinner @RGS_IBG Soon Leopold II King of the Belgians would be knocking on his door to offer him a job

#OnThisDay in 1876 Edwards Pierrepont is appointed USA Ambassador to UK ahead of President Grant's choice of Mr Richard Dana. A snub from both Republicans & Democrats

Written & set mostly in 1876 Anna Karenina's suicide by train could have been #OnThisDay in 1876 (in May sunshine). In modern times in the UK there are still approx 200 suicides per year on the railways out of approx 5-6,000.

#OnThisDay at the @royalacademy Summer Exhibition “Looking out for a Good Investment” by Erskine Nichol "presents 2 children before a tempting array of toys & sweetmeats in a village shop-window pondering what would yield the best return for the penny they have between them."

By my calculations looking at the historical references in the book, #OnThisDay in 1876 #Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (SPOILER ALERT) throws herself under a train to end the sorrow that overlapped her joy. Great book & a great film

#OnThisDay in 1876 "explosion of foul air & gas" 700 feet down in Grove Shaft #Midlothian Coal Pit, Chesterfield, #Virginia kills 8 miners. It's a high risk job in 1876

#OnThisDay in 1876 there are Zombie nuns @HerMajesty’s Theatre #London. In Meyerbeer's opera "Robert le diable" nuns rise from graves). Here is Degas version from 1876 now at @V_and_A painted for Jean-Baptiste Faure who had appeared in the play

#OnThisDay in 1876 President Leon de Tejada's government troops defeat rebel Porfirio Diaz's #Mexico revolution at Battle of Icamole. Diaz reported to have been in tears afterwards OR to have scolded his officers (depends who tells the story)

#OnThisDay in 1876 #Queen Victoria's train journey to #Balmoral is interrupted at 9.30 am at #Perth with news that Princess Christian's (Helena) week-old Baby Prince Harold has died. Infant mortality is everyone's problem

#OnThisDay in 1876 after an emergency baptism, Baby Prince Harold seems a bit better so grandma #QueenVictoria & Aunt Beatrice leave by rail for #Balmoral at 8pm

#OnThisDay in 1876 "Interior of the Atelier" by Mihaly Munkacsy at Paris Salon, which unusually Henry James loved: "the painting has incomparable breadth & freedom, & yet all its rich, bold brush work has been admirably wrought, &, as it were, melted together". Probably this one

#OnThisDay in 1876 royal encounter with infant mortality unfolds. The daughter of #QueenVictoria Princess Helena’s son, Prince Harold, attacked by convulsions - emergency baptism

#OnThisDay in 1876 a daring Indian attack on #Custer City burns the ammunition house (right in the centre of town) which blows up destroying several houses

#OnThisDay in 1876 the newly restored Guildhall (near @GuildhallArt) welcomes Bertie Prince of Wales back home after his 6-month Royal tour of #India #Pomp #Circumstance

#OnThisDay in 1876 amid The Eastern Question (what to do with the #Ottoman Empire who is the sick man of Europe) Disraeli confirms British fleet despatched to Besika Bay at the entrance to the Black Sea & in range of Constantinople

#OnThisDay in 1876 First reading of Sandon’s Act @UKParliament compelling children to go to school up to the age of 10 (or 13 if don't have a job!) #Education Education Education