Mar 01 Library of Hawaii founded

Mar 03 The first female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

Mar 03 US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior

Mar 14 Revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.

Mar 11 Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt.

Mar 14 The birth of Albert Einstein, Austrian scientist

Mar 03 The United States Geological Survey was established

Aug 12 First National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)

Aug 05 First game of night football at Melbourne Cricket Ground, under gas-lights.

Aug 12 The Intercolonial Railway gains access to Quebec by purchasing the Grand Trunk line between Quebec and Rivière du Loup.

Sep 23 Baldwin steam motors tram first tried in Sydney Australia

Sep 20 U. Grant comes to SF for elaborate extended visit

Sep 28 Sydney Australia innaugurates steam motor tram route

Feb 25 Congress passed first Timberland Protection Act

Feb 28 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation

Feb 08 Sanford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time, by dividing the world into 24 equal time zones, with standard time within each zone

Feb 12 Artificial ice is created in at Madison Square Garden for the first time

Feb 05 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

Feb 18 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha

Feb 22 Frank W. Woolworth opens his first store in Utica, New York.

Feb 27 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)

Feb 12 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London

Feb 14 Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta

Feb 27 Two American chemists announce the discovery of saccharin

Feb 10 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo

Feb 15 U.S. President Rutherford Hayes signs a bill enabling female lawyers to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

Feb 22 Frank Woolworth opens his first 'Woolworths' store in Utica, New York state

Feb 10 First electric arc light used (California Theater)

Apr 09 The birth of WC Fields, American actor

Apr 19 J Palisa discovers asteroid #195 Eurykleia

Apr 20 The first mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus

Nov 02 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km

Nov 19 National Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter

Nov 04 James & John Ritty patent the cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in their Dayton, Ohio saloon

Nov 04 The birth of Will Rogers, American actor and humorist

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