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