Today in History for Year 1874

Months in Year 1874: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 75 of 75

Jan 1st - New York City annexes the Bronx
Jan 13th - Battle between jobless & police in NYC, 100s injuried
Jan 13th - US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
Jan 14th - I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature
Jan 17th - Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction
Jan 21st - Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna
Jan 24th - Gen J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
Jan 24th - Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg
Jan 31st - Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
Feb 12th - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US
Feb 21st - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
Feb 21st - Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
Feb 23rd - Mjr Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)
Feb 27th - Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
Mar 2nd - Baseball batter's box is officially adopted
Mar 10th - Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student
Mar 18th - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
Mar 22nd - Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
Apr 5th - Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
British Prime Minister William Gladstone Apr 5th - Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead, England. Designed by Joseph Paxton
Apr 15th - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
Apr 16th - Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
Apr 18th - David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey
Apr 19th - Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
Apr 27th - White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
May 5th - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
May 9th - Victoria Embankment, in London opens
May 9th - The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, plying two routes.
May 12th - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
May 13th - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite"
May 14th - 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats Uni of McGill (Montreal) 3-0
May 16th - 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
May 26th - 2nd Preakness: William Donohue aboard Culpepper wins in 2:56.5
May 29th - Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
Physician and Explorer David Livingstone Jun 13th - 8th Belmont: G Barbee aboard Saxon wins in 2:39.5
Jun 20th - 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
Jun 22nd - Dr Andrew T Still, discovers the science of osteopathy
Jun 22nd - Game of lawn tennis introduced
Jun 28th - Freedmen's Bank closes
Jun 29th - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
Jul 1st - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
Jul 1st - 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
Jul 1st - 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
Jul 4th - Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
Jul 7th - 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office
Jul 8th - The Mounties begin their March West.
Jul 12th - Ontario Agricultural College founded
Jul 12th - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "Gloria Scott" (BG)
Jul 23rd - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
Jul 29th - Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
Jul 30th - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
Jul 31st - Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as pres of Georgetown U
Aug 5th - Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England.
Aug 11th - Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
Aug 26th - 16 blacks lynched in Tennessee
Sep 1st - 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office
Sep 1st - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
Sep 3rd - The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
Sep 12th - 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
Sep 26th - 1st Grand International Rifle match held
Oct 1st - Rotterdam opens drink water pipes
Oct 9th - World Postal Union forms in Bern Switzerland
Oct 10th - Fiji becomes a British possession
Oct 15th - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
Nov 3rd - James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
Nov 4th - Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY
Nov 7th - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast
Nov 17th - Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, NZ
Nov 18th - National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
Nov 19th - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
Nov 24th - Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
Nov 25th - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
Dec 8th - Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
Dec 15th - 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
Dec 24th - Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 178

Jan 1st - Hugo Leichtentritt, composer
Jan 1st - Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
Jan 1st - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
Jan 4th - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)
Jan 4th - Sven Fleuron, writer
Jan 5th - Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
Jan 6th - Fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)
Jan 13th - Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin
Jan 14th - Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit)
Jan 16th - Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
Jan 22nd - Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926)
Jan 22nd - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
Jan 24th - Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Alfonso), Puerto Rico, archivist of African American history and culture
Jan 25th - Hewlett Johnson, [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
Jan 25th - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
Jan 29th - John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist
Jan 29th - Robert Lach, composer
Feb 1st - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
Feb 3rd - Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue)
Physiologist Joseph Erlanger (Jan 5th) Feb 3rd - Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
Feb 6th - Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
Feb 9th - Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed)
Feb 9th - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan)
Feb 11th - Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
Feb 11th - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer
Feb 13th - Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic)
Feb 15th - Emilis Melngailis, composer
Feb 15th - Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
Feb 16th - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935)
Feb 17th - Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM)
Feb 20th - Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
Feb 22nd - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
Feb 23rd - Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
Feb 24th - Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
Feb 26th - Carl Vogler, composer
Feb 28th - Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
Mar 1st - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
Mar 5th - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
Mar 5th - Henry Travers, England, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra)
Mar 9th - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
Mar 12th - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
Mar 14th - Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
Mar 14th - Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)
Mar 15th - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
Mar 15th - Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
Mar 17th - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
Mar 17th - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
Mar 18th - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
Mar 19th - Arthur Hoyt, Georgetown CO, actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along)
Mar 20th - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
Mar 22nd - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini (Mar 24th) Mar 24th - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist
Mar 24th - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
Mar 26th - Gerald du Maurier, London Engld, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
Mar 26th - Oskar Nedbal, composer
Mar 26th - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
Apr 3rd - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
Apr 8th - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
Apr 9th - Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
Apr 14th - Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada)
Apr 15th - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
Apr 15th - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
Apr 18th - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
Apr 19th - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter
Apr 19th - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
Apr 24th - John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
Apr 24th - Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
Apr 25th - Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)
Apr 26th - J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v Australia 1902)
Apr 28th - Karl Kraus, writer
Apr 28th - Sidney Toler, Warrensburg MO, actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight)
Apr 30th - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer
May 3rd - Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
May 3rd - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
May 10th - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
May 12th - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)
May 13th - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
May 19th - Gilbert Laird Jessop, cricketer (The Croucher)
May 20th - Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry
May 22nd - Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
May 22nd - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
May 26th - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
May 27th - Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870]
May 27th - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos)
May 29th - G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], London, English writer (Man Who Made Gold)
Jun 5th - Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904)
Jun 7th - Theodor Streicher, composer
Jun 11th - Richard Stohr, composer
Jun 12th - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
Jun 13th - Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer
Jun 14th - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
Jun 16th - Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
Jun 17th - Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
Jun 19th - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
Jun 26th - Albert Relf, cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14)
Jun 26th - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer
Jun 28th - Oley Speaks, composer
Jun 29th - Georg Gohler, composer
Jul 1st - Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
Jul 3rd - Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Mar 21st - US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 35 of 35

Jan 4th - Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
Jan 8th - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
Jan 17th - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62
Jan 19th - H v Fallersleben, writer, dies at 75
Feb 3rd - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
Feb 8th - David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66
Feb 9th - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75
Feb 17th - [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgium astronomer/sociologist, dies at 77
Feb 24th - Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
Mar 8th - Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74
Mar 11th - Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63
Mar 20th - Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63
Mar 28th - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
Apr 4th - Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
Apr 14th - Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curacao, dies at 86
Apr 19th - Owen Jones, architect, dies
Apr 20th - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
May 1st - Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39
Jun 8th - Cochise, Apache leader
13th US President Millard Fillmore (Mar 8th) Jun 21st - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
Jun 22nd - Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies
Jul 11th - Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgium pontifical defense minister, dies at 54
Jul 12th - Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63
Aug 14th - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
Aug 22nd - Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet, dies
Aug 27th - Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
Aug 27th - John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies
Sep 12th - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
Sep 21st - JBAL Leonce Elie the Beaumont, French geologist, dies at 75
Oct 6th - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50
Oct 26th - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
Nov 9th - Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies
Dec 7th - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
Dec 16th - Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79
Dec 22nd - Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86