1875 - Definition and Overview

Years:
1872 1873 1874 - 1875 - 1876 1877 1878

Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1875 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

Contents

1 Events

1.1 January - April
1.2 May - August
1.3 September - December
1.4 Unknown date

2 Births

3 Deaths

Events

January - April

January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor of California Romualdo Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected governor William Irwin.
March 3 - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris

May - August

May 17 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.

September - December

September 1 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
November 9 - Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year).
December 4 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.

Unknown date

Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court.
Treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia.
Tong wars begin in San Francisco
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others.
The Arya Samaj was founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda.

Births

January 5 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer of the Silent Era
January 7 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner
January 9 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite (d. 1942)
January 14 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952 (d. 1965)
January 15 - Tom Burke, American runner
January 22 - D. W. Griffith, director
February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962)
February 11 - Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, composer
February 26 - Hans Böckler, unionist and politician (d. 1951)
March 1- Although later deemed Unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 allows blacks equal rights on jury duty and at public events
March 7 - Maurice Ravel, composer (d. 1937)
March 26 - Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
April 1 - Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
April 2 - Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (d. 1940)
April 4 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
April 5 - Mistinguett, French cabaret singer
April 8 - Albert I of Belgium
April 15 - James J. Jeffries, world heavyweight boxing champion (d. 1953)
May 11 - Harriet Quimby, first licensed female pilot in the United States (d. 1912)
June 12 - Sam De Grasse, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1953)
June 24 - Diedrich Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956)
June 28 - Henri Lebesgue, mathematician (d. 1941)
August 21 - Winnifred Eaton, author (d. 1954)
August 27 - Katharine McCormick, U.S. women's rights activist
September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author
October 1 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
October 12 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947)
October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist
December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke, poet (d. 1926)
December 5 - Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933)
December 25 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna from 1932-1955
Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya
Abd al-Hafiz, sultan of Morocco. (uncertain date)

Deaths

January 23 - Charles Kingsley, English writer
February 22 - Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist.
May 17 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States
June 3 - Georges Bizet, French composer
July 31 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer.
August 10 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
August 17 - Wilhelm Bleek, linguist
September 22 - Charles Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur.
October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, novelist, poet and dramatist
November 22 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President
November 24 - William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American business tycoon

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