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By year: 1870 - 1871 - 1872 - 1873 - 1874 - 1875 - 1876 - 1877 - 1878 - 1879

Trends and developments: telephone (invention) - phonograph (invention) - Impressionism - Comstock law (1873, USA)

Novels: Venus in Furs (1870) - Carmilla (1872)

Quote of the decade: To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point. --Arthur Rimbaud

Births: Pierre Lou˙s - Marcel Proust - Paul Valéry - Alfred Jarry - Arnold Schoenberg - Francis Picabia

Impression, soleil levant (1872/1873) - Claude Monet

Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, ca. 1875
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Oil on panel
23 _ x 18 _ in. (60.3 x 46.4 cm)

Events

1870 Venus in Furs (1870) Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

1871 To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point. --Arthur Rimbaud

1872 Carmilla (1872) - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

1873 Comstock Act of 1873

1874 Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns

1875 Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, (ca. 1875) James Abbott McNeill Whistler

1876 Dewey Decimal System introduced

1877 Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) - Pisanus Fraxi

1878 Thomas Edison: first electric light

1879 Pornokrates (1879) - Félicien Rops

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