Berlin Conference to regulation colonialism in Africa.
Borodin, a.k.a. George Brown, a.k.a. Mikhail Markovich Grunzeberg is born in the Pale in western Russia.
Timeline
February 26: Angl-Portugese Treaty signed to help carve up southern Africa.
March 13: The Sudanese army of the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad) lay seige to Khartoum.
April 1: U.S. Senate votes to support U.S. Pres. Chester Arthur's position on the colonial enterprise in the Congo of Leopold II, King of the Belgians.
