1874

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[edit] Events of 1874

January 1 - New York City annexes The Bronx
January 23 - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia.
January 23 - Camille Saint-Saëns' composition Danse Macabre is premiered.
January - Signing of the Pangkor Treaty (also known as the Pangkor Engagement), by which the British extended their control over, first the Sultanate of Perak and later the other independent Malay States.
February 21 - The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
February 23 - Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike" which is more commonly called lawn tennis.
March 18 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
March - founding of a Young Men's Hebrew Association in Manhattan which still operates today as the 92nd Street Y

9 May - The first horse drawn carriage made its début in the city of Mumbai, plying on two routes.
May 20 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. The price was $13.50 per dozen.
June 4 - The flag of Estonia is consecrated as the flag of Estonian Students Society in Otepää.
June 5 - The Students Rowing Club Njord was founded in Leiden (The Netherlands)

July 1 - The first public zoo in the U.S. opens, at Philadelphia.
July 23 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.
July 24 - Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp with an electric light bulb.

October 19 - Modern University of Zagreb founded in Zagreb
November 4 - Democrats regain the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.
November 7 - Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. [1].
November 10 - John Ernst Worrell Keely demonstrates his "induction resonance motion motor" (later investigation reveals fraud behind another perpetual motion machine).
November 25 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.

Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule.
Home Rule Movement created to protest British Government control over Ireland. (see History of Ireland)
First Impressionist exhibition, Paris; name coined in hostile review of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise
Opening of the Agra canal in India.
Charles Russell and the Bible Student movement claim this year to mark the invisible return of Jesus Christ to earth.
Heart of Midlothian Football Club (Scotland) founded.
Michel Dominique becomes the head of state of Haiti.
Ignacio (Maria) Gonzalez becomes head of state in the Dominican Republic.