Historical Events In 1875

Nov 07   Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa on this day in history.  

Nov 10   Maude Eburne, Canada, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman) in the year 1875.  

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

Nov 13   In the year 1875 national Bowling Association organized in NYC  

Nov 13   Rogelio del Villar, composer in the year 1875.  

Nov 14   On this day in history jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater  

Nov 16   In the year 1875 battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians  

Nov 17   Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott on this day in history.  

Nov 17   Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies in the year 1875.  

Nov 19   In the year 1875 michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state  

Nov 21   Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67 in the year 1875.  

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   On this day in history wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane)  

Nov 28   Verney Cameroon reaches East Africa on this day in history.  

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

Dec 03   On this day in history bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist  

Dec 04   On this day in history r M Rilke, writer  

Dec 04   In the year 1875 the birth of Edgar Wallace, English writer  

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

Dec 05   On this day in history sir Arthur Currie, the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps in WW1 is born  

Dec 06   In the year 1875 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes  

Dec 07   Natives Sons of the West organized on this day in history.  

Dec 08   On this day in history aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg  

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

Dec 10   Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1875 friedrich Niggli, composer  

Dec 17   Violent bread riots in Montreal in the year 1875.  

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   In the year 1875 t F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green)  

Dec 22   Antoine Mariotte, composer on this day in history.  

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Jan 01   Charles Rist, French economist was born in the year 1875.  

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   In the year 1875 birth of gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)  

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)  

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

Jan 12   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814) died in the year 1875.  

Jan 23   Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55 in the year 1875.  

Jan 25   Leopold Jansa, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Feb 01   William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

Feb 03   On this day in history everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66  

Feb 17   Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet, dies at 33 in the year 1875.