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
