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November 15 in Victorian History

What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.

1884

The Berlin Conference opens

Bismarck convenes the European powers in Berlin to carve up Africa -- without a single African present. The Scramble for Africa gets its rulebook. Within thirty years, almost the entire continent will be under European rule.

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