1881
Factory Act. fixed working hours for children below 12 dangerous machines fenced.
Vernacular Press Act repealed.
Census System introduced in India
A curtain- huge seven story mansion of Bombay, streets, railway lines, ships and factories.
Phalke's Uncle went to work in the railways every day, and came back to his private practice of foreign pharmacy. One corner of the front room in Dadar had shelves full of glass bottles with small sugar balls, and various liquid poisons.
Dhundiraj falls ill that summer, with something like a water poisoning. He is unable to attend school. One morning he wakes up from a night of knotted dreams to see white pills being shaken by his bedside in a glass container with water.
Phalke is not sure he wants to have this strange medicine. Dialogue between Phalke and the Uncle about homeopathy. His uncle tells him that water has a memory, this water that he is coating the sugar pills with, has been given the same poison that is attacking Dhundi's body. The water has been diluted again and again, till almost all trace of the poison is gone, and when it enters Dhundi's body, it will fight the poison in the body with the memory of that poison. "Like Abhimanyu's memory, from the womb", his uncle exclaims Dhundi makes a wry face and thinks to himself " We know what happened to Abhimanyu"
But strangely, he is soon cured of his illness. He cannot decide whether the illness just ran its natural course, or whether the pensive waters actually fought a war on his behalf.
A telephone exchange opens in Budapest. Nicola Tesla becomes its chief electrician.
January 25 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company
February 13 - First issue of the feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is published by Hubertine Auclert. February 19 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
- March 4 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes is succeeded as President of the United States by James Abram Garfield.
- March 12 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
- March 13 - Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. He is succeeded by his son, Alexander III.
- April 14 - Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas
- April 21 - The University of Connecticut is founded as the Storrs Agricultural School.
- April 25 - Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.
- April 28 - Billy the Kid escapes from New Mexico jail.
May - August
- May 21 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
- May 21 - The United States Tennis Association is established by a small group of tennis club members.
- July 2 - James Abram Garfield, President of the United States is shot by lawyer Charles Julius Guiteau. He survives the assassination attempt but he suffers from infection of his wound.
- July 4 - In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
- July 20 - Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.
- 3 August - Pretoria Convention peace treaty signed, officialy ending the war between the Boers and Britain
- August 27 - A hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die
- December 8 - At least 620 die in fire at Ring Theatre, Vienna
Deaths. February 9 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
July 18 - Billy the Kid, American gunslinger (b. 1859)
