Mar 03 US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail

Mar 11 Fort Carlton Saskatchewan Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier 1847-1901 warns Ottawa of danger of rebellion in Saskatchewan; NWMP Superintendent at Fort Carlton

Mar 22 Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion

Mar 30 Russian occupation of Penjdeh, Afghanistan, provokes crisis in Anglo-Russian relations.

Mar 07 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti

Mar 04 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as first Democratic President since Civil War

Mar 31 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate

Mar 30 Cree chief Poundmaker [Pitikwahanapiwiyin] 1826-1886 attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month

Mar 03 US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission

Mar 13 In Victoria British Columbia, the Legislature passes Chinese Restriction; bans entry of Chinese immigrants, later ruled unconstitutional

Mar 03 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)

Mar 14 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London

Mar 26 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan

Mar 21 2nd French government of Ferry resigns

Mar 19 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Saskatchewan

Mar 28 US Salvation Army officially organized

Mar 20 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

Mar 26 Eastman Film Co manufactures first commercial motion picture film

Mar 03 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates

Aug 30 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda

Aug 13 BHP incorporated in Australia as a business.

Aug 29 Boxing's first heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey

Aug 29 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle

Aug 29 Gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle

Sep 04 The first buffet in the US opens in New York City.

Sep 05 The first gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)

Sep 30 Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate

Sep 16 Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup

Sep 04 The first cafeteria opens (NYC)

Sep 15 Tthe famous circus elephant "Jumbo" is killed by a GTR freight train, hauled by locomotive no. 788 at St. Thomas. It was struck from behind while being lead along the track to be loaded into his car. Jumbo stood 12' 5" high and weighted 7 1/2 tons.

Sep 11 The birth of D.H Lawrence, English novelist

Feb 05 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London

Feb 12 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society

Feb 24 The birth of Chester Nimitz, United States navy admiral

Feb 25 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

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