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)

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

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

Oct 17 President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus

Oct 24 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese

Oct 09 The Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.

Oct 27 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption

Oct 07 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters

Oct 08 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation

Oct 23 Columbia and Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup

Oct 08 A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'

Oct 30 Phila Athletics beat Chicago for first Natl Assn baseball pennant

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

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

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