: In a grand ceremony in Paris on July 4, France formally presented the completed statue to the United States.
It was also a year of deep political shifts. In Berlin, European powers met to partition the African continent among themselves, a move that would reshape global geography for a century. Meanwhile, in London, the was founded, planting the seeds for socialist political thought in Britain. : In a grand ceremony in Paris on
: Representatives from 25 nations met in Washington for the International Meridian Conference, officially establishing Greenwich, England, as the Prime Meridian and the standard for time-reckoning across the globe. Shadows of the Era the was founded