Mar 04 California becomes first state to pass plant quarantine legislation

Mar 04 South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire

Mar 13 In Russia, Czar Alexander II is killed near the Winter Palace by a hand-bomb thrown by a member of the "People’s Will," a militant wing of the Narodniki movement, which advocated socialist reform in Russia and the elimination of the central government

Mar 04 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th President

Mar 04 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet", first case together

Mar 23 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die

Mar 23 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end first Boer war

Aug 12 The birth of Cecil B. De Mille, Hollywood producer/director

Aug 04 122ø F (50ø C), Seville, Spain (European record)

Sep 18 Chicago Tribune reports on a televide experiment

Sep 20 Chester A Arthur sworn in as president

Feb 26 SS Ceylon begins first round-the-world cruise from Liverpool

Feb 16 In Montreal Quebec George Stephen signs charter and incorporates Canadian Pacific Railway and in 2001 the company said it will break up into it's parts

Feb 19 Kansas becomes first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

Feb 05 Phoenix, Arizona, is incorporated as a city.

Feb 15 Canadian Pacific Railway Act receives the Royal Assent. A Royal Charter pursuant to the Act was granted on February 16th - this incorporated the company. The principal terms provided for the payment to the railway of a subsidy of $25,000,000 and 25,000,000 acres of land, plus the railways (Port Arthur-Selkirk-Winnipeg-Emerson and Port Moody-Savona) already contracted for by the government, upon their completion.

Feb 26 Natal British troops under General-Major Colley occupy Majuba Hill

Feb 01 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized

Feb 07 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal Boers beat superior British forces

Feb 24 De Lesseps' Company begins work on Panama Canal

Feb 27 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley

Feb 04 The birth of Fernand Leger, French painter.

Apr 11 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die

Apr 23 The opera "Patience or Bunthorne's Bride" is produced (London)

Apr 05 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty

Nov 14 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination

Nov 15 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)

Dec 08 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850

Dec 25 The ship Lord Bute, left Newcastle on Tyne and was not heard of again. It is speculated that she was lost with all hands the following day.

Dec 19 The opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels)

May 05 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine

May 21 US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed

May 10 Lighthouse on Ameland begins operation

May 08 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch

May 16 World's first elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)

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