Notable Historical Events - 1875
1875 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 5 |
Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris |
Jan 5 |
President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss |
Jan 12 |
Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. |
Jan 24 |
Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre," premieres |
Jan 25 |
Anti-slavery society forms (NY) |
Jan 26 |
Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green |
Feb 24 |
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 25 |
Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill |
Mar 1 |
Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Ct, 1883 |
Mar 3 |
1st recorded hockey game (Montreal) |
Mar 3 |
Congress authorizes 20 cent coin, lasts only 3 years |
Mar 3 |
Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris) |
Mar 14 |
Smetana's "Vysehrad" premieres |
Mar 15 |
1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested |
Apr 17 |
Snooker invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain |
Apr 25 |
Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3") |
May 1 |
238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities |
May 1 |
Alexandra Palace, London, reopens after being burnt down in 1873 |
May 7 |
German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed |
May 11 |
George "Charmer" Zettlein pitches the 1st 9 inning shutout |
May 12 |
1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0 |
May 16 |
Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000 |
May 17 |
1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75 |
May 20 |
International Bureau of Weights & Measures forms by treaty |
May 28 |
3rd Preakness: L Hughes aboard Tom Ochiltree wins in 2:43.5 |
May 31 |
Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified |
Jun 2 |
James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US |
Jun 2 |
Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission |
Jun 4 |
Pacific Stock Exchange opens |
Jun 5 |
Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens in San Francisco |
Jun 6 |
Netherlands goes on the gold standard |
Jun 7 |
California Rifle and Pistol Association founded |
Jun 12 |
9th Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard Calvin wins in 2:42.25 |
Jun 19 |
Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio |
Jun 19 |
The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins. |
Jun 22 |
Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun & Toulouse, kills about 1,000 |
Jul 1 |
Universal Postal Union established |
Jul 4 |
White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg |
Jul 7 |
Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri |
Jul 19 |
Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC |
Aug 2 |
1st roller skating rink opens (London) |
Aug 14 |
Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl |
Aug 22 |
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands. |
Aug 25 |
Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel (21h 45m) |
Sep 1 |
A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband. |
Sep 9 |
Lotta's Fountain (Kearny & Market) dedicated |
Sep 11 |
1st newspaper cartoon strip |
Sep 29 |
US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion |
Oct 5 |
Palace Hotel on Market Street, SF opens |
Oct 16 |
1st Quebec vs Ontario football game, Ontario wins |
Oct 16 |
Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. |
Oct 22 |
Sons of American Revolution organizes |
Oct 22 |
First telegraphic connection in Argentina. |
Oct 25 |
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 2 |
Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela Angola, from Africa's east coast |
Nov 4 |
Passenger Steamship "Pacific" collides with sailing vessel "Orpheus" off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die |
Nov 4 |
Tonga adopts constitution |
Nov 4 |
Massachusetts Rifle Association is founded in Boston |
Nov 7 |
Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa |
Nov 13 |
Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms |
Nov 13 |
National Bowling Association organized in NYC |
Nov 16 |
Battle of Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
Nov 16 |
William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities |
Nov 17 |
Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott |
Nov 28 |
British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa |
Dec 4 |
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail |
Dec 6 |
44th Congress (1875-77) convenes |
Dec 7 |
Natives Sons of the West organized |
Dec 8 |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg |
Dec 17 |
Violent bread riots in Montreal |
Dec 25 |
Lambs Club in NY forms |
Dec 30 |
Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms |
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