Inventor Gottlieb Daimler filed for a patent for a two-wheel “riding car,” or in other words, “motorcycle.”
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The oldest Japanese coinage was minted.
The Treaty of Picquigny was signed between France and England, agreeing on a seven-year truce and free trade between the two kingdoms.
Rowntree's introduced the famous Kit Kat featuring three layers of wafer cut into finger slices and surrounded by milk chocolate.
Quebec Bridge in St Lawrence, Canada, collapsed after four years of construction.
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was incorporated.
