1866 | Europe • France | Color lithography popularized by Jules Chéret (1836–1932) in France. This made it possible to print large colored advertising posters for the first time. |
1867 | Africa | Adam Render and Carl Mauch publish research on the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. |
1867 | Europe • France | The Paris International Exhibition is held. |
1867 | Africa • Southern Africa | Diamonds discovered in Cape Colony. |
1869 | Europe | DNA is extracted by the Swiss physician Frederick Miescher - he calls it nuclein |
1870 | North America • USA | Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded in New York. |
1870 | North America • USA | Museum of Fine Arts is founded in Boston. |
1870 | Asia • India | The Archaeological Survey of India is founded [Read about] |
1874 | Europe • France
| Nadar holds the first exhibition of Impressionist paintings (15 April-15 May 1874) at his photographic studio at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris. The Salon had refused their paintings in 1873 and the painters, who collectively called themselves the Societé anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, mounted the show as a protest. The name Impressionism was taken from one of Monet's paintings Impression: Sunrise and originated in a derogatory comment from a journalist. (15 April 1874) |
1874 | Africa • Central Africa | German botanist Georg Schweinfurth publishes The Heart of Africa and it promotes interest in the Kingdoms of Central Africa. |