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Ottoman sultan Abdulaziz is deposed by his nephew Murad and dies; Murad is quickly replaced by Abdulhamid II. Taking advantage of a weakened Ottoman government in a time of dynastic transition, the Serbs, Montenegrins, and Bulgarians in the Balkans rebel against their Turkish overlords. The Turks quell the uprising but also enact a new constitution that grants more civil and political rights to all subjects of the Ottoman Empire.
Japan forces Korea to open its ports to Japanese trade.
The period known as Reconstruction comes to an end in the American South with the disputed election of Rutherford B. Hayes; Democrats soon return to power, eliminating most Republican opposition, and begin establishing laws that gradually restrict the rights of African Americans.
25 June U.S. troops under General George A. Custer are wiped out by Lakota and Cheyenne warriors under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse...
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