May 12 US Assay Office in Helena MT authorized

May 05 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

May 16 The first recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg MA)

May 29 The birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English novelist

May 29 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect

May 09 Victoria Embankment, in London opens

May 14 Harvard beats University of McGill (Montréal) in football, 3-0

May 20 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz

Jan 17 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction

Jan 05 The city of Winnipeg holds first civic election. Only 304 voters were registered, but 331 ballots are cast. go figure

Jan 17 Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction

Jan 31 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill MO

Jan 21 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna

Jan 01 New York City annexes the Bronx

Jan 13 Battle between jobless &police in New York City NY, 100s injured

Jan 22 Louis Riel 1844-1885 elected as the member of Parliament for Provencher in Manitoba. He will be prevented from taking his seat by a warrant for his arrest sworn in Ontario, for the murder of Thomas Scott.

Jan 05 The city of Winnipeg holds first civic election. Only 304 voters were registered, but 331 ballots are cast. go figure

Jan 01 New York City annexes the Bronx

Jan 24 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St Petersburg Russia

Jan 13 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king

Jan 13 Imperial Russian Government issues second decree which amended the one of June 4, 1871. The second decree instituted compulsory military conscription for the German colonists. These two decrees impelled thousands of German Russians to immigrate to North and South America.

Jan 24 General J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die

Jan 22 Liberal Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 defeats John A. Macdonald in the second Canadian general election, 138 seats to 67

Jan 31 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill MO

Feb 12 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is first king to visit US

Feb 23 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

Feb 21 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication

Feb 27 Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds

Feb 21 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier

Apr 06 The birth of Harry Houdini, Famous escape artist

Apr 25 The birth of Guglielmo Marconi, Inventor of radio

Apr 19 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire

Apr 27 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms

Apr 05 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus", premieres in Vienna

Apr 21 J Palisa discovers asteroid #137 Meliboea

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