Mar 19 Minister of Inland Revenue Alexander Morris 1826-1889 introduces Act to legalize metric system in Canada

Mar 29 Queen Victoria opens the Royal Albert Hall in London

Mar 22 William Holden of North Carolina is first governor removed from office by impeachment

Mar 26 Paris Commune founded

Mar 21 Otto von Bismarck elevated Fürst

Mar 03 Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent

Mar 29 Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in London

Mar 21 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa

Mar 01 J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia

Mar 18 Communards revolt in Paris France

Feb 28 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections

Feb 01 Jefferson Long of Georgia is first black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)

Feb 09 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress

Feb 27 Meeting of Alabama claims commission

Apr 20 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)

Apr 23 Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up

Apr 02 Dominion of Canada's first census shows a population of 3,689,257, including 2,110,000 of British origin and 1,083,000 of French origin

Apr 10 William Hammond Hall's maps &surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted

Nov 21 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter

Nov 10 Explorer and journalist Henry M. Stanley locates missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"

Nov 10 Henry Stanley, sent to locate the missing missionary David Livingstone, finally found him

Nov 10 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa

Nov 01 The birth of Stephen Crane, American novelist

Nov 10 Explorer and journalist Henry M. Stanley locates missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"

Nov 28 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in SC

Nov 24 National Rifle Association organized (NYC)

Dec 27 World's first cat show (Crystal Palace, London)

Dec 19 Albert Jones, New York NY, patents corrugated paper

Dec 24 Verdi's 'Aida' performed for the first time, in Cairo

Dec 12 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum

Dec 24 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening

May 08 English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute

May 12 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY

May 10 Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany; France cedes Elzas

May 28 Paris communards revolt put down

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