Historical Events In 1875

Nov 10   In the year 1875 maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman)  

Nov 13   In the year 1875 harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms  

Nov 13   On this day in history national Bowling Association organized in NYC  

Nov 13   In the year 1875 rogelio del Villar, composer  

Nov 14   Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater on this day in history.  

Nov 16   Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians on this day in history.  

Nov 17   Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott in the year 1875.  

Nov 17   Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies on this day in history.  

Nov 19   Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state in the year 1875.  

Nov 21   Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Nov 22   Elizabeth Patterson, Savannah TN, actress (Climax, Tall Story) in the year 1875.  

Nov 25   Financial difficulties force the ruler of Egypt to seel his shares in the Suez Canal to England and France giving them effective control of the waterway on this day in history.  

Nov 27   Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane) in the year 1875.  

Nov 28   Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa in the year 1875.  

Dec 02   In the year 1875 frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)  

Dec 03   In the year 1875 bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist  

Dec 04   R M Rilke, writer on this day in history.  

Dec 04   The birth of Edgar Wallace, English writer on this day in history.  

Dec 04   William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail on this day in history.  

Dec 05   Sir Arthur Currie, the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps in WW1 is born on this day in history.  

Dec 06   44th Congress (1875-77) convenes on this day in history.  

Dec 07   On this day in history natives Sons of the West organized  

Dec 08   Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg in the year 1875.  

Dec 09   Massachusetts Rifle Association "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is founded in the year 1875.  

Dec 10   On this day in history otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84  

Dec 12   Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian on this day in history.  

Dec 14   On this day in history dobri Khristov, composer  

Dec 15   Friedrich Niggli, composer on this day in history.  

Dec 17   Violent bread riots in Montreal on this day in history.  

Dec 19   Carter G Woodson, New Canton Va, American historian (black studies) on this day in history.  

Dec 20   Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

Dec 20   T F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green) on this day in history.  

Dec 22   In the year 1875 antoine Mariotte, composer  

Dec 22   Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 in the year 1875.  

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of charles Rist, French economist  

Jan 01   In the year 1875 birth of n F Druce, cricketer (5 Tests for England v Australia 1897-98)  

Jan 07   Thomas Hicks, English/US marathon runner: (Olympic-gold-1904) was born in the year 1875.  

Jan 07   Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 09   In the year 1875 birth of gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)  

Jan 11   In the year 1875 birth of reinhold Gliere, composer  

Jan 12   In the year 1875 birth of marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella)  

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist (Nobel 1954)  

Jan 03   In the year 1875 baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68  

Jan 18   Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55 in the year 1875.  

Jan 20   On this day in history death of jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)  

Jan 23   On this day in history charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55  

Jan 25   Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79 in the year 1875.  

Feb 01   In the year 1875 william Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58  

Feb 03   Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66 in the year 1875.  

Feb 17   In the year 1875 luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33