| Year Summary | Monarch is Queen Victoria. Prime Minister is William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) who resigns and then from 5th March is Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Liberal). US President is Grover Cleveland (D-New York). Tower Bridge in London opened. Blackpool Tower opened. Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer open the first Marks & Spencer store in Manchester. Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. Milton S. Hershey creates the Hershey Chocolate Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
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