May 17 Indians fighter General Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches

May 21 French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die

Jul 03 The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma".

Jul 25 Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa

Jul 20 British Columbia is admitted to the Dominion of Canada. One of the conditions of entry is that the Dominion Government should, within two years from the date of union, commence the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains and from a point east of the Rocky Mountains towards the Pacific to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada. Sir Sandford Fleming was appointed Engineer-in-Chief of this railway which was to be completed by 1881.

Jul 10 The birth of Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist

Jul 12 North America's first public narrow gauge railway, the Toronto and Nipissing, is opened for traffic between Toronto and Uxbridge. The 3'6" gauge line was converted to standard by 1884.

Jul 23 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra

Jun 15 Phoebe Couzins is first woman graduate of a US collegiate law school

Jun 30 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms

Jun 13 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador

Jun 04 Imperial Russian Government issues decree repealing the Manifestos of Catherine II and Alexander I, terminating, after a period of ten years' grace, the special privileges of the German colonists.

Jun 16 Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded, NYC

Jun 20 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss

Jan 17 Andrew Hallikie received a patent for a cable car system that went into service in San Francisco in 1873.

Jan 18 William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor.

Jan 05 A group of Chinese find a nugget at Dunolly, Victoria, called The Precious, which yields 50.418 kg of pure gold.

Jan 17 Andrew Hallikie received a patent for a cable car system that went into service in San Francisco in 1873.

Jan 02 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25

Jan 03 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY

Jan 31 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky

Jan 28 Paris surrenders to Prussians

Jan 05 A group of Chinese find a nugget at Dunolly, Victoria, called The Precious, which yields 50.418 kg of pure gold.

Jan 01 Belgium disbands salt tax

Jan 18 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck

Jan 17 The first cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873)

Jan 03 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY

Jan 26 British Rugby Union forms

Jan 02 King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25

Jan 19 The first Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey

Jan 01 Belgium disbands salt tax

Jan 17 The first cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873)

Jan 18 Germany has its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia

Jan 31 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky

Jan 26 US income tax repealed

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