What Happened In July 1874 - Historical Events 1874 July

Historical Events for July, 1874

1st » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
8th » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police named Mounties begin their North-West Mounted Police e.g March West.
23rd » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Kingdom of Portugal known as Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.

3rd » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1928)
4th » John McPhee (politician) called John McPhee, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
5th » Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (d. 1967)
7th » Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist (d. 1945)
10th » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
24th » Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and author (d. 1917)
24th » Hermann Wilker, German rower (d. 1941)
26th » Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
28th » Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)
29th » Auguste Giroux, French rugby player (d. 1953)
29th » J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)