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1887

Definition

The year in which a specific event, legislation, or historical development occurred.

Analogy

Imagine you have a time machine with different buttons for each year. Pressing the "1887" button would transport you back to that specific year in history.

Related terms

Decade: A period of ten years.

Century: A period of one hundred years.

Millennium: A period of one thousand years.

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