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What Happened In History Year 1874

Historical Events for the Year 1874

  • 16th February » Dollar coin (United States) or Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
  • 21st February » The 'Oakland Tribune known as Oakland Daily Tribune' publishes its first edition.
  • 28th February » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for Tichborne case e.g attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronets or Tichborne baronetcy.
  • 15th March » French Third Republic e.g France and Nguyễn Dynasty known as Viet Nam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
  • 18th March » Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
  • 9th May » The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
  • 16th May » A flood on the Mill River (Northampton, Massachusetts) called Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
  • 27th May » The first group of Dorsland Trek e.g Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
  • 1st July » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
  • 8th July » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police named Mounties begin their North-West Mounted Police e.g March West.
  • 23rd July » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Kingdom of Portugal known as Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
  • 5th August » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
  • 3rd September » The congress of the State of Mexico elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Benito Juárez called Juárez".
  • 9th October » General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
  • 25th November » The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.

Famous Birthdays in 1874

  • 1st January » Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
  • 1st January » Gustave Whitehead, German-American engineer (d. 1927)
  • 3rd January » Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
  • 4th January » Josef Suk (composer) e.g Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
  • 5th January » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
  • 6th January » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1948)
  • 12th January » Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (d. 1963)
  • 12th January » James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
  • 13th January » Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1958)
  • 16th January » Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
  • 19th January » Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Makuuchi Yokozuna called Yokozuna (d. 1922)
  • 22nd January » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
  • 22nd January » Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
  • 25th January » W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (d. 1965)
  • 29th January » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)
  • 1st February » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1929)
  • 3rd February » Gertrude Stein, American poet and art collector (d. 1946)
  • 6th February » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (d. 1937)
  • 9th February » Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925)
  • 11th February » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author (d. 1953)
  • 11th February » Fritz Hart, English composer and conductor (d. 1949)
  • 14th February » Louis Handley, Italian-American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1956)
  • 15th February » Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922)
  • 16th February » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935)
  • 17th February » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (d. 1956)
  • 20th February » Mary Garden, Scottish soprano (d. 1967)
  • 22nd February » Bill Klem, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
  • 23rd February » Konstantin Päts, Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956)
  • 24th February » Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955)
  • 5th March » Henry Travers, English actor (d. 1965)
  • 12th March » Charles Weeghman, American businessman (d. 1938)
  • 14th March » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips or Philips Electronics (d. 1951)
  • 15th March » Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
  • 15th March » Harold L. Ickes, American politician (d. 1952)
  • 18th March » Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
  • 20th March » Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
  • 23rd March » J. C. Leyendecker, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1951)
  • 24th March » Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)
  • 24th March » Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926)
  • 26th March » Robert Frost, American poet and playwright (d. 1963)
  • 29th March » Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
  • 30th March » Charles Lightoller, English 2nd officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)
  • 1st April » Ernest Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)
  • 1st April » Prince Karl of Bavaria (1874–1927) or Prince Karl of Bavaria (d. 1927)
  • 8th April » Manuel Díaz (fencer) named Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer (d. 1929)
  • 8th April » Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
  • 12th April » William B. Bankhead, American politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1940)
  • 15th April » George Harrison Shull, American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954)
  • 15th April » Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
  • 18th April » Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941)
  • 18th April » Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author (d. 1938)
  • 19th April » Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
  • 21st April » Vincent Scotto, French composer (d. 1952)
  • 25th April » Ernest Webb, English race walker (d. 1937)
  • 28th April » Karl Kraus (writer) called Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
  • 30th April » Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish priest (d. 1949)
  • 1st May » Romaine Brooks, American-French painter (d. 1970)
  • 1st May » Paul Van Asbroeck, Belgian target shooter (d. 1959)
  • 3rd May » François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty, Inc. (d. 1934)
  • 3rd May » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
  • 9th May » Howard Carter, English archaeologist (d. 1939)
  • 10th May » Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and orientalist (d. 1941)
  • 12th May » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1929)
  • 15th May » Polaire, French singer and actress (d. 1939)
  • 17th May » George Sheldon (diver) e.g George Sheldon, American diver (d. 1907)
  • 19th May » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
  • 22nd May » Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
  • 24th May » Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874–1878) called Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)
  • 29th May » G. K. Chesterton, English journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1936)
  • 30th May » Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912)
  • 9th June » Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (d. 1930)
  • 16th June » Arthur Meighen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
  • 19th June » Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
  • 21st June » Jacob Linzbach, Estonian linguist and author (d. 1953)
  • 22nd June » Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (d. 1930)
  • 22nd June » Walter Friedrich Otto, German philologist and scholar (d. 1958)
  • 3rd July » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1928)
  • 4th July » John McPhee (politician) called John McPhee, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)
  • 5th July » Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (d. 1967)
  • 7th July » Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist (d. 1945)
  • 10th July » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
  • 24th July » Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and author (d. 1917)
  • 24th July » Hermann Wilker, German rower (d. 1941)
  • 26th July » Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (d. 1951)
  • 28th July » Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)
  • 29th July » Auguste Giroux, French rugby player (d. 1953)
  • 29th July » J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
  • 5th August » Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic (d. 1948)
  • 6th August » Charles Fort, American author (d. 1932)
  • 8th August » Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1948)
  • 9th August » Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
  • 9th August » Otto Steffen, American gymnast (d. 1957)
  • 10th August » Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
  • 22nd August » Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (d. 1928)
  • 26th August » Zona Gale, American author and playwright (d. 1938)
  • 27th August » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
  • 5th September » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (d. 1959)
  • 13th September » Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (d. 1962)
  • 13th September » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (d. 1951)
  • 17th September » Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic (d. 1970)
  • 18th September » Georges Lumpp, French rower (d. 1934)
  • 21st September » Gustav Holst, English composer and educator (d. 1934)
  • 26th September » Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940)
  • 3rd October » Charles B. Middleton, American actor (d. 1949)
  • 6th October » Frank G. Allen, American merchant and politician, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
  • 9th October » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (d. 1947)
  • 12th October » Jimmy Burke (baseball) or Jimmy Burke, American baseball player and manager (d. 1942)
  • 13th October » József Klekl (politician) known as József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (d. 1948)
  • 15th October » Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899)
  • 20th October » Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
  • 26th October » Martin Lowry, English chemist (d. 1936)
  • 26th October » Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American philanthropist (d. 1948)
  • 9th November » Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (d. 1954)
  • 10th November » Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
  • 15th November » Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (d. 1941)
  • 15th November » August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
  • 18th November » Clarence Day, American author and poet (d. 1935)
  • 20th November » James Michael Curley, American politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
  • 22nd November » Eugène Balme, French target shooter (d. 1914)
  • 24th November » Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee (d. 1953)
  • 25th November » Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
  • 27th November » Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School (d. 1948)
  • 27th November » František Erben, Czech-Bohemian gymnast (d. 1942)
  • 27th November » Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
  • 29th November » Francis Dodd (artist) or Francis Dodd, Welsh-English painter and academic (d. 1949)
  • 29th November » Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
  • 30th November » Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
  • 30th November » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
  • 2nd December » Joseph Olivier (rugby union) e.g Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (d. 1901)
  • 6th December » Lucien Démanet, French gymnast (d. 1979)
  • 8th December » Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician (d. 1951)
  • 13th December » Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator (d. 1944)
  • 17th December » William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
  • 20th December » Frederick Steep, Canadian soccer player (d. 1956)
  • 22nd December » Franz Schmidt, Austrian cellist, pianist, and composer (d. 1939)
  • 23rd December » Viggo Wiehe, Danish actor (d. 1956)
  • 25th December » Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (d. 1944)
  • 26th December » Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologist and academic (d. 1965)
  • 29th December » François Brandt, Dutch rower (d. 1949)

Famous Deaths in History for 1874

  • 4th January » Thomas Gregson, English-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
  • 8th January » Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)
  • 17th January » Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai conjoined twins (b. 1811)
  • 19th January » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)
  • 9th February » Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
  • 17th February » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
  • 8th March » Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
  • 11th March » Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (b. 1811)
  • 20th March » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
  • 28th March » Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
  • 4th April » Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
  • 20th April » Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
  • 8th June » Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
  • 21st June » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
  • 22nd June » Howard Staunton, English chess player (b. 1810)
  • 14th August » Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)
  • 21st September » Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1794)
  • 21st November » Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
  • 7th December » Constantin von Tischendorf, German academic and scholar (b. 1815)

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