Madagascar becomes a French protectorate (colony).
Emile Zola publishes Germinal.
Second wave of Japanese immigrants begins as 945 kanyaku imin or government sponsored contract laborers arrive in Hawaii. Second wave of 30,000 lasts from 1885 to 1894.
Second Northwest Rebellion in Saskatchewan; Metis and Cree kill 17 before the Metis capital is overrun by Dominion troops and the Metis leader arrested.
The Glasgow Observer is founded.
Giacomo Matteotti is born.
Timeline
January 26: The Sudanese army of the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad) captures Khartoum.
May 17: Geronimo flees the San Carlos reservation with 35 warriors and 109 women, children and youths.
September 2: Whites attack Chinese in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, killing 28 Chinese and burning down a Chinese mining camp with an estimated property loss of $150,000. List of the Victims
