1884	Scramble for Africa
1897	The construction of the Eiffel Tower begins
1859	On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
1872	Claude Monet, impressionism is born
1865	End of the american civil war
1863	Creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross
1879	Thomas Edison invents the first commercial light bulb
1867	Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital

«A chair should not be horizontal-vertical, nor should it be expressionist, nor constructivist, nor designed purely for expediency, nor made to match with the table... it should be a good chair and as such it will match with the good table…»
Marcel Breuer