Today in History for Year 1875

Months in Year 1875: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 71 of 71

Jan 5th - Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris
Jan 5th - President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss
Jan 12th - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
Jan 24th - Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres
Jan 25th - Anti-slavery society forms (NY)
Jan 26th - Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
Feb 24th - The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
Feb 25th - Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
Mar 1st - Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883
Mar 3rd - 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)
Mar 3rd - Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years
Mar 3rd - Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
Mar 14th - Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres
Mar 15th - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
Apr 17th - "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
Apr 25th - Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3")
May 1st - 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
May 1st - Alexandra Palace reopens after the 1873 fire burnt it down.
May 7th - German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
Composer Georges Bizet May 11th - George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout
May 12th - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
May 16th - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
May 17th - 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
May 20th - Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures forms by treaty
May 28th - 3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43.5
May 31st - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
Jun 2nd - James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
Jun 3rd - Alexander Graham Bell makes 1st voice transmission
Jun 4th - Pacific Stock Exchange opens
Jun 5th - Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
Jun 6th - Netherlands goes on the gold standard
Jun 12th - 9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25
Jun 19th - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
Jun 19th - The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell Jun 22nd - Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000
Jul 1st - Universal Postal Union established
Jul 4th - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg
Jul 7th - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
Jul 19th - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
Aug 2nd - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
Aug 14th - Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl
Aug 22nd - The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
Aug 25th - Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m)
Sep 1st - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
Sep 9th - Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated
Sep 11th - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
Sep 29th - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion
Oct 5th - Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens
Oct 16th - 1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins
Outlaw Jesse James Oct 16th - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
Oct 22nd - Sons of American Revolution organizes
Oct 22nd - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
Oct 25th - The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
Nov 2nd - Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast
Nov 4th - Passenger Steamship "Pacific" collides with sailing vessel "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die
Nov 4th - Tonga adopts constitution
Nov 7th - Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
Nov 13th - Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
Nov 13th - National Bowling Association organized in NYC
Nov 16th - Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
Nov 16th - William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
Nov 17th - Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
Nov 28th - Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa
Dec 4th - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
Composer Tchaikovsky Dec 6th - 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
Dec 7th - Natives Sons of the West organized
Dec 8th - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg
Dec 9th - Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded.
Dec 17th - Violent bread riots in Montreal
Dec 25th - Lambs Club in NY forms
Dec 30th - Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 164

Jan 1st - Charles Rist, French economist
Jan 1st - N F Druce, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1897-98)
Jan 7th - Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904)
Jan 7th - Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
Jan 9th - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
Jan 11th - Reinhold Gliere, composer
Jan 12th - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella)
Jan 14th - Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1954)
Jan 15th - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)
Jan 16th - Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
Jan 17th - Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910)
Jan 21st - John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille)
Jan 21st - Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies
Jan 22nd - Bonifacius C de Jonge, governor (Dutch East Indies)
Jan 22nd - D[avid] W Griffith, movie producer/director (Birth of a Nation)
Jan 22nd - Thomas W Ross, actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm)
Jan 28th - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer
Feb 1st - Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
Feb 2nd - Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare)
Feb 2nd - Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist/composer
Feb 4th - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist (father of aerodynamics)
Feb 4th - Raymond Moulaert, composer
Feb 6th - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
Feb 7th - Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
Feb 7th - Walter Courvoisier, composer
Feb 9th - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer
Feb 11th - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
Feb 18th - Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur)
Feb 21st - Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
Feb 23rd - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
Feb 26th - Emma Dunn, actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway)
Feb 26th - Richard Wetz, composer
Feb 28th - Viliam Figus, composer
Mar 2nd - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian
Mar 4th - Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
Mar 4th - Enrique Larreta, [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
Mar 4th - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
Mar 7th - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
Mar 9th - Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
Mar 10th - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
Mar 12th - Julio Garreta, composer
Mar 13th - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
Mar 14th - Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary)
Mar 14th - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
Mar 25th - Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
Mar 26th - Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Apr 26]
Mar 29th - Lou Henry Hoover, 1st lady (1929-33)
Mar 29th - Paul Rubens, composer
Apr 1st - Edgar Wallace, England, novelist/playwright/journalist (Terror)
Apr 2nd - Walter Chrysler, Wamego, Kansas, founder of car company Chrysler
Apr 4th - Jozef Szulc, composer
Apr 4th - Pierre Monteux, Paris France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24)
Apr 4th - Samuel S Hinds, Brooklyn NY
Apr 5th - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
Apr 8th - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34)
Apr 13th - Ray Lyman Wilbur, U.S. university president and politician (d. 1949)
Apr 15th - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
Apr 15th - James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
Apr 18th - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (d. 1938)
Apr 24th - Jeno Huszka, composer
Apr 26th - Syngman Rhee, South Korea, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Mar 26]
Apr 27th - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple)
Apr 27th - Freddie Fane, cricketer (Hobbs' 1st Test opening partner)
Apr 27th - Lumsden Hare, Ireland, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox, Young Bess)
Apr 29th - Rafael Sabatini, Italian/British writer (d. 1950)
May 4th - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
May 4th - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
May 6th - William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star admiral/chief of staff (1949)
May 11th - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
May 18th - Guido Alberto Fano, composer
May 23rd - Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
May 30th - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
May 31st - Italo Montemezzi, composer
Novelist Thomas Mann (Jun 6th) Jun 6th - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
Jun 9th - Henry Dale, London, physiologist (Nobel-1936)
Jun 12th - Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953)
Jun 13th - Max d' Ollone, composer
Jun 15th - Herman Smith-Johannsen, cross-country skier (d. 1987)
Jun 17th - Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
Jun 20th - Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
Jun 23rd - Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
Jun 26th - Camille Zeckwer, composer
Jun 28th - Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941)
Jul 3rd - Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon
Jul 4th - Giovanni & Giacomo Tocci, Italy, siamese twins
Jul 10th - Mary McLeod Bethune, SC, educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
Jul 15th - Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
Jul 15th - Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter
Jul 17th - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (Jul 26th) Jul 26th - Carl Gustav Jung, Switzerland, doctor (founded analytic psychology), (d. 1961)
Jul 26th - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939)
Jul 30th - James William Tate, composer
Jul 31st - Harry Northrup, Paris France, actor (Who's That Knocking at My Door)
Aug 2nd - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)
Aug 6th - Marcel Labey, composer
Aug 8th - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
Aug 9th - Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer (Wonder Worker)
Aug 9th - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, music critic and diarist
Aug 12th - Ettore Panizza, composer
Aug 12th - Mezio Agostini, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Feb 4th - Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belgium

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 59 of 59

Jan 3rd - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
Jan 3rd - George Bizet, composer, dies
Jan 3rd - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
Jan 18th - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55
Jan 20th - Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
Jan 23rd - Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55
Jan 25th - Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79
Feb 1st - William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58
Feb 3rd - Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66
Feb 17th - Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33
Feb 19th - Jean B Vuillaume, French violin maker (octobas), dies at 76
Feb 22nd - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
Feb 22nd - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
Mar 1st - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
Mar 10th - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84
Mar 18th - Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
Mar 27th - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
Mar 30th - Marie Moke Pleyel, composer, dies at 63
Apr 7th - Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57
Apr 11th - Heinrich Schwabe, discoverer (11-year sunspot cycle), dies
Apr 24th - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58
Apr 30th - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
May 5th - Jan A C A van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch MP (1848-75), dies at 71
May 17th - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States (b. 1821)
May 20th - Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
May 23rd - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
Jun 2nd - Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
Composer Georges Bizet (Jun 3rd) Jun 3rd - Georges Bizet, French composer, dies at 36
Jun 4th - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
Jun 9th - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
Jun 15th - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72
Jun 25th - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
Jun 29th - Ferdinand I KLJM de Goedige, Emperor of Austria, dies at 82
Jul 9th - Francis Preston Blair Jr, famed St Louis lawyer, dies at 54
Jul 17th - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
Jul 23rd - Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor (sewing machine), dies at 63
Jul 30th - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
Jul 31st - Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
Aug 4th - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
Aug 10th - Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
Aug 17th - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
Aug 27th - William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)
Author Hans Christian Andersen (Aug 4th) Aug 31st - Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49
Sep 15th - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
Sep 24th - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
Sep 28th - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58 [OS]
Oct 10th - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
Oct 12th - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
Oct 24th - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
Oct 28th - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
Nov 2nd - JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered
Nov 6th - John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
Nov 17th - Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies
Nov 21st - Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67
Nov 22nd - Henry Wilson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
Dec 10th - Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84
Dec 20th - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
Dec 22nd - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75
Dec 25th - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)