Mar 12 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
Mar 05 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President
Mar 02 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory
Mar 15 Commencement of first Test Cricket, Australia vs England at MCG
Mar 25 Australian immigrants' friend, Caroline Chisholm, dies in London.
Mar 19 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match
Mar 16 Charles Bannerman completes first Test cricket century, 165 vs England
Mar 18 President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington DC
Mar 03 Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President
Mar 24 University boat race between Oxford &Cambridge ends in a dead heat
Mar 31 British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
Mar 17 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' first 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England
Aug 17 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
Aug 29 Mormon Church president Brigham Young dies in Salt Lake City, UT.
Aug 02 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
Aug 10 First use of the telephone to dispatch trains. This was at the Caledonia Mine at Glace Bay on the Sydney Mines Railway. One of the owners was Gardiner G. Hubbard who was the father in law of Alexander Graham Bell who installed two telephones to control train movements.
Aug 01 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
Aug 12 Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device
Aug 11 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
Sep 11 The birth of James Jeans, British mathematician
Sep 20 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
Sep 05 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
Sep 27 John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti
Sep 30 First US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
Feb 20 First cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg KY
