Jul 12 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "The Gloria Scott" (BG)

Jul 01 First US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000

Jul 04 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed

Jul 12 Ontario Agricultural College founded

Jul 29 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

Jun 22 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy

Jun 20 First US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)

Jun 28 Freedmen's Bank closes

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

Oct 10 Fiji becomes a British possession

Oct 26 All Grand Trunk Railway lines east of Montreal, 542 miles, are converted from 5' 6" to standard gauge.

Oct 01 Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of new Japanese Navy to organize a Pay Department and instruct Japanese about accounts. He served until 1 October 1877 when he again became a purser in the U.S. Navy. In 1878, the Emperor of Japan conferred on him the Fourth Class of Rising Sun for his service.

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