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The Franco-Prussian War ended in 1871, ending in France’s humiliating defeat. What emerged: a new and expanded German Empire, and the revolutionary Paris Commune, which briefly overthrew the French government. In Africa, journalist Henry Stanley began his famous search for missing explorer Dr. Livingstone. In the U.S., fire destroyed much of Chicago, forcing the young city to rebuild from the ground up, the first professional association of baseball players formed and, in Brooklyn, P.T. Barnum debuted his first traveling circus.
Depiction of Livingstone’s 1843 lion attack.
Prussian artillery at the Fort d’Aubervilliers, France, during the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Alphonse Liebert/Getty Images)
A view of downtown Chicago, including the damages Court House, in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, Illinois, October 1871. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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