May 25 Gilbert &Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore" premieres in London

May 31 US Congress accept decrease in dollar circulation

May 04 Phonograph shown for first time at Grand Opera House

May 02 US stops minting 20¢ coin

May 14 Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)

May 27 Australia Cricket 41 & 12-1 defeat MCC 33 & 19

May 23 Attorney John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia

May 19 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield

May 31 German battleship Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed

May 24 CA Parker (Harvard) wins first American bike race, Beacon Park Boston

Jan 14 The first private connection by telephone in Great Britain is made on the Isle of Wight when Queen Victoria speaks to Thomas Biddulph.

Jan 06 The birth of Carl Sandburg, American poet

Jan 10 US Senate proposes female suffrage

Jan 14 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional

Jan 08 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent & Henry Morton Stanley

Jan 28 First telephone exchange (New Haven CT) , and George W Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator

Jan 22 Canada wins right to decide whether or not to be included in British trade treaties

Jan 25 Turkish steamer becomes the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo, fired from a Russian boat

Feb 19 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

Feb 19 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his cylinder-playing music player (forerunner of the "modern day" phonograph).

Feb 28 US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate

Feb 02 Greece declares war on Turkey

Feb 16 The Silver Dollar was introduced as a U.S. coin.

Feb 10 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres

Feb 11 First weekly Weather report published in UK

Feb 12 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)

Feb 10 Peace of Zanjón

Feb 22 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)

Feb 21 The first U.S. telephone directory is distributed (District Telephone Co., New Haven, CT).

Apr 28 The birth of Lionel Barrymore, American actor

Apr 06 Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #186 Celuta

Apr 10 Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service

Apr 21 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia

Apr 11 J Coggia discovers asteroid #187 Lamberta

Sep 30 First Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawaii

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | Next Page »