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January

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January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...
– New York City annexes
The Bronx The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...
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January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Emp ...
Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...
for the first time. *
January 3 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. * 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
:
Battle of Caspe The Battle of Caspe took place during the Aragon Offensive of the Spanish Civil War in 16–17 March 1938. Background After the Battle of Teruel, the Republican Army in Aragon was exhausted and badly equipped. In March 1938 a huge Nationalis ...
– Campaigning on the Ebro in Aragon for the Spanish Republican Government, Colonel Eulogio Despujol surprises a Carlist force under Manuel Marco de Bello at Caspe, northeast of Alcañiz. In a brilliant action the Carlists are routed, losing 200 prisoners and 80 horses, while Despujol is promoted to Brigadier and becomes Conde de Caspe. *
January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. *1156 – Finnish peasant Lalli kills English clergyman Henry (bishop of Finland), Henry, the Bishop of Turku, on the ice of Köyliönjärvi, Lake Köyli ...
– The
Pangkor Treaty The Pangkor Treaty of 1874 was a treaty signed between Great Britain and the Sultan of Perak on 20 January 1874, on the Colonial Steamer ''Pluto'', off the coast of Perak. The treaty is significant in the history of the Malay states as it legit ...
(also known as the Pangkor Engagement), by which the British extend their control over first the Sultanate of
Perak Perak (; Perak Malay: ''Peghok'') is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kel ...
, and later the other independent Malay States, is signed. *
January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1229 ...
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 184430 July 1900) was sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 22 August 1893 until his death in 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Du ...
, second son of
Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...
, marries
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (; – 22 October 1920) was the sixth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine; she was Duchess of Edinburgh and later Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and G ...
, only daughter of Tsar
Alexander III of Russia Alexander III (; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed some of the libera ...
, in the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in
Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
.


February

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February 21 Events Pre-1600 * 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The ...
– The '' Oakland Daily Tribune'' publishes its first issue in California. *
February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone o ...
Walter Clopton Wingfield Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (16 October 1833 – 18 April 1912) was a Welsh inventor and a British Army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis.Tyzack, AnnThe True Home of Tennis''Country Life'', 22 June 2005J. Perris (2000Grass ...
patents in Britain a game called "sphairistike", more commonly called
lawn tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
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February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...
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Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: First Battle of Somorrostro – Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sends General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14,000 men. Carlists, under General Nicolás Ollo, entrenched at Somorrostro outside Bilbao, drive back a courageous assault by General Fernando Primo de Rivera and then the entire Republican army. The republicans lose 1,200 men, and Moriones loses his nerve, demanding reinforcements and a replacement for himself. Moriones's men entrench and wait.


March

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March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the H ...
Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: Battle of Castellfollit de la Roca – Appointed to command the Spanish Republican army in the north, General Ramón Nouvilas attempts to relieve the Carlist siege of Olot in Girona. But at Castellfollit de la Roca, in one of the Government's worst defeats, Nouvilas is routed by Carlist General
Francesc Savalls Francisco Savalls Massot (1817–1885) also known as Francesc Savalls i Massot, was a Spanish Catalan Carlist Carlism (; ; ; ) is a Traditionalism (Spain), Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an a ...
, and captured along with about 2,000 of his men. Olot capitulates two days later. *
March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman R ...
France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
and
Viet Nam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous coun ...
sign the
Second Treaty of Saigon The Treaty of Saigon was signed on 15 March 1874 by the Third French Republic and the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam. Vietnam made economic and territorial concessions to France, while France waived a previous war indemnity and promised military pr ...
, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over
Cochinchina Cochinchina or Cochin-China (, ; ; ; ; ) is a historical exonym and endonym, exonym for part of Vietnam, depending on the contexts, usually for Southern Vietnam. Sometimes it referred to the whole of Vietnam, but it was commonly used to refer t ...
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March 18 Events Pre-1600 * 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10. * 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ar ...
**Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States, granting exclusive trading rights. **The
Dresden English Football Club The Dresden English Football Club was a football club founded in 1874 in Dresden, the first in Germany and likely the first outside Great Britain. History Initial foundation The Dresden English Football Club was founded in 1874 and was the fir ...
is founded, the first association football club on the European mainland. *
March 25 Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England and its dominions (in the Julian calendar). Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending th ...
– The Republic of
Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
is consecrated to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus () is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus Christ is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This devotion to Christ is p ...
, carried out by President
Gabriel García Moreno Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García Moreno y Morán de Butrón (24 December 1821 – 6 August 1875), was an Ecuadorian politician and aristocrat who twice served as President of Ecuador (1861–65 and 1869–75) and was assassinated ...
and supported, blessed and specified by Pope
Pius IX Pope Pius IX (; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in hist ...
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March 25 Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England and its dominions (in the Julian calendar). Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending th ...
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Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: Second Battle of Somorrostro – In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrives with 27,000 men and 70 cannons. However, in three days of fierce fighting, the Carlist General Joaquín Elío, with just 17,000 men, once again drives off the attack at nearby Somorrostro, and it is another six weeks before Serrano manages to relieve Bilbao. *
March March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20 or 2 ...
– The Young Men's Hebrew Association in
Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...
(which will still be operating 150 years later as the
92nd Street Y 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a cultural and community center located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Founded in 1874 as the You ...
) is founded.


April

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April 15 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guisca ...
May 15 Events Pre-1600 * 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. * 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurpe ...
– A group of young painters, ''Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs'', gives their first exhibition, at the studio of the photographer
Nadar Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar () or Félix Nadar'','' was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of History of avi ...
in Paris.
Louis Leroy Louis Leroy (; 1812 - 1885) was a French 19th-century printmaker, painter, and playwright. Biography He is remembered as the journalist and art critic for the French satirical newspaper '' Le Charivari'', who coined the term "impressionists" ...
's critical review of it published on
25 April Events Pre-1600 *404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. * 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
gives rise to the term
Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
for the movement, with reference to
Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...
's ''
Impression, Sunrise ''Impression, Sunrise'' () is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the " Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movem ...
''.


May

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May 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter. * 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...
Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: The siege of Bilbao is lifted. *
May 9 Events Pre-1600 * 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria. * 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy. * 1386 – England and Portugal formall ...
– The first commercial horse-drawn carriage debuts in the city of
Bombay Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial centre, financial capital and the list of cities i ...
, plying two routes. *
May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France Robert II ( 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious () or the Wise (), was List of French monarchs, King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Juni ...
– First admission charge at a football game:
Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...
beats University of McGill (Montreal) 3–0. *
May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. * 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. *13 ...
– The Mill River dam collapses in
Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
, killing 139 people. *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. ...
– Verdi's
Requiem A Requiem (Latin: ''rest'') or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead () or Mass of the dead (), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased, using a particular form of the Roman Missal. It is ...
is first performed at
San Marco San Marco is one of the six sestiere (Venice), sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city as the main place of Venice. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Although the district includes Piazza San Marco, Saint Mar ...
in Milan on 22 May 1874, the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. *
May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. * 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. *1533 – The marriage of King Henry ...
– Passenger ship ''British Admiral'', on a voyage from
Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
(England) to
Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
(Australia), sinks after hitting rocks off
King Island (Tasmania) King Island is an island in Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania. It is the largest of four islands known as the New Year Island (Tasmania), New Year Group and the second-largest island in Bass Strait (after Flinders Islan ...
; only nine of the 88 passengers and crew are rescued. *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &nda ...
– The first group of
Dorsland Trek Dorsland Trek (''Thirstland Trek'') is the collective name of a series of explorations undertaken by Boer settlers from South Africa from 1874 to 1881, in search of political independence and better living conditions. The participants, '' Trek ...
kers, a series of expeditions by ''
Trekboer The Trekboers ( ) were nomadic pastoralists descended from mostly Dutch colonists on the frontiers of the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa. The Trekboers began migrating into the interior from the areas surrounding what is now Cape Town, su ...
e'' in search of political independence and better farming conditions, departs South Africa to settle in
Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
, led by Gert Alberts.


June

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June 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. * 1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soo ...
Michel Domingue Michel Domingue (; July 28, 1813 – May 24, 1877) served as the president of Haiti from 14 June 1874 to 15 April 1876. Biography Michel Domingue was born in Les Cayes in 1813. He graduated from military training and became commander of Armed ...
becomes head of state of
Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
. *
June 22 Events Pre-1600 *217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. *168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Roman Republic, Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Luciu ...
Andrew Taylor Still Andrew Taylor Still (August 6, 1828 – December 12, 1917) was the founder of osteopathic medicine. He was also a physician and surgeon, author, inventor and Kansas territorial and state legislator. He was one of the founders of Baker University ...
starts the movement for
osteopathic medicine in the United States Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States that promotes the practice of science-based medicine, often referred to in this context as allopathic medicine, with a set of philosophy and principles set by its ...
at
Kirksville, Missouri Kirksville is the county seat of and most populous city in Adair County, Missouri, United States. Located in Benton Township, Adair County, Missouri, Benton Township, its population was 17,530 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Kirk ...
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June 25 Events Pre-1600 * 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce. * 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
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Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: Battle of Monte Muro –
Carlist Carlism (; ; ; ) is a Traditionalism (Spain), Traditionalist and Legitimist political movement in Spain aimed at establishing an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty, one descended from Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain, Don Carlos, ...
forces entrenched around
Abárzuza Abárzuza () is a town and Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the provinces of Spain, province and autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. References External links

* Municip ...
, on the approach to Estella in
Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...
, repel an attack by Isabelino/Liberal (supporters of Queen Isabella II) troops led by General
Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name), a given name and surname * Manuel (''Fawlty Towers''), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manuel I of Portugal, king of Po ...
, Marqués del Duero, who is killed on the third day of fighting.


July–September

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July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and ...
** The
Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union (UPU, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system. It has 192 member states and is headquartered in Be ...
is established. ** The
Philadelphia Zoo The Philadelphia Zoo is a zoo located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia on the west bank of the Schuylkill River. It was the first true zoo in the United States; it was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 21, 1859 ...
opens, the first public zoo in the
United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
. ** The
Sholes and Glidden typewriter The Sholes and Glidden typewriter (also known as the Remington No. 1) was the first commercially successful typewriter. Principally designed by the United States, American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, it was developed with the assist ...
, with cylindrical platen and
QWERTY QWERTY ( ) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets. The name comes from the order of the first six Computer keyboard keys#Types, keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: . The QWERTY design is based on a layout included in the Sh ...
keyboard, is first marketed in the United States. ** The
Bank of Spain The Bank of Spain (, ) is the national central bank for Spain within the Eurosystem. It was the Spanish central bank from 1874 to 1998, issuing the peseta. Since 2014, it has also been Spain's national competent authority within European Banki ...
emits the first peseta banknotes. *
July 14 Events Pre-1600 * 982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy. *1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II. * 142 ...
– The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council. *
July 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. * 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. * 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of S ...
**
Mathew Evans Matthew Evans is one of two Canadians who developed and patented an incandescent light bulb, on July 24, 1874, five years before Thomas Alva Edison's U.S. patent on the device. Evans, from Toronto, Ontario Ontario is the southernmost Provi ...
and Henry Woodward patent the first
incandescent lamp An incandescent light bulb, also known as an incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe, is an electric light that produces illumination by Joule heating a filament until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is eith ...
, with an electric light bulb. **
Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: Sack of Cuenca – After Carlist forces successfully defend Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, leads 14,000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca (136 km from Madrid), held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano. After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulates, but Don Alfonso permits a terrible slaughter. The city is sacked. Subsequently, another republican force defeats the disorderly Catalans, who flee back to the Ebro. *
July 31 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
Patrick Francis Healy Patrick Francis Healy (February 27, 1834January 10, 1910) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's flagship building, Healy ...
, S.J., the first Black man to receive a PhD, is inaugurated as president of
Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
, the oldest Catholic University in America, and becomes the first Black person to head a predominantly White university.


August

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August 11 Events Pre-1600 * 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins. * 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
Third Carlist War The Third Carlist War (), which occurred from 1872 to 1876, was the last Carlist War in Spain. It is sometimes referred to as the "Second Carlist War", as the earlier Second Carlist War, "Second" War (1847–1849) was smaller in scale and relative ...
: Battle of Oteiza – Two months after Government forces were repulsed from Carlist-held Estella, in Navarre, Republican General Domingo Moriones makes a fresh diversionary attack a few miles to the southeast at Oteiza. In heavy fighting Moriones secures a costly tactical victory over Carlist General Torcuato Mendíri, but the war continues another 18 months, before Estella finally falls.


September

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September 9 Events Pre-1600 *337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. * 1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. * 1141 &ndas ...
– Captain Lyman's wagon train besieged by Indians in
Hemphill County, Texas Hemphill County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,382. The county seat and only incorporated community in the county is the city of Canadian. The county was created in 1876 and o ...
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September 14 Events Pre-1600 *AD 81 – Domitian became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. * 786 – "Night of the three Caliphs": Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. Bir ...
Battle of Liberty Place: In
New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
, former Confederate Army members of the
White League The White League, also known as the White Man's League, was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen (emancipated Black former slaves) into not voting and prevent ...
temporarily drive Republican Governor William P. Kellogg from office, replacing him with former Democratic Governor
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. U.S. Army troops restore Kellogg to office five days later. *
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October

* October 9 ** The Treaty of Bern establishes the General Postal Union, to coordinate the exchange of international mail. ** The San Diego Society of Natural History, originator of the San Diego Natural History Museum, is founded in California. * October 19 – The modern University of Zagreb is founded. * October 31 – The Quebra–Quilos revolt, Quebra-Quilos Revolt starts in Paraíba, Empire of Brazil.


November

* November 2 – The first issue of Japanese-language newspaper ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' is published in Tokyo, Japan. * November 4 – Democratic Party (United States), Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1860. *November 6 – The University of Adelaide is founded in Australia. * November 7 – ''Harper's Weekly'' publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast which is the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party in the United States. * November 9 – The New York Zoo hoax, a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo, is perpetrated on the public. * November 10 – John Ernst Worrell Keely demonstrates his "induction resonance motion motor", a perpetual motion machine, which eventually turns out to be a fraud. * November 11 – The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority. * November 16 – Premiere of Alfred Cellier's comic opera ''The Sultan of Mocha'' at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. * November 18 – Sailing ship ''Cospatrick (ship), Cospatrick'' carrying emigrants from England bound for New Zealand, catches fire and sinks in the South Atlantic with the loss of all but three of the 472 persons on board. * November 25 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.


December

* December 1 – Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule from Denmark. * December 9 – ''Passage de Vénus'' is released as the oldest "film" in history. * December 29 – General Martínez and Brigadier General Luís Daban stage a ''pronunciamento'' at Sagunto, and proclaim Isabel's son Alfonso XII, Alfonso as King of Spain. Subsequently, the Madrid garrison follows suit, and the First Spanish Republic comes to an end.


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* The Agra Canal opens in India. * The -tall spire of St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg, designed by English architect George Gilbert Scott, is completed, making it (briefly, and by 5m) the List of tallest buildings and structures in the world, world's tallest building (a title held since 1647 by Strasbourg Cathedral). * The House of Keys, lower house of the Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man, moves from Castletown, Isle of Man, Castletown to Douglas, Isle of Man, Douglas. * Charles Taze Russell and the Bible Student movement claim this year marks the invisible return of Jesus Christ to earth. * Gold is discovered in the Black Hills. * DDT is first synthesized. * English chemist C. R. Alder Wright synthesizes heroin for the first time. * The following Association football clubs are founded in Great Britain: ** Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa. ** Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers (as Christ Church F.C.) ** Greenock Morton F.C., Greenock Morton. ** Heart of Midlothian F.C., Heart of Midlothian (in Edinburgh). * The Supreme Council 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada is founded. * The medieval Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens), Frankish Tower on the Acropolis of Athens is demolished. * Schindler Group, known for escalators and elevators, is founded in Switzerland.


Births


January

*
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** Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral, politician (d. 1958) ** Gustave Whitehead, German-born aviation pioneer (d. 1927) * January 4 – Josef Suk (composer), Josef Suk, Czech composer, violinist (d. 1935) * January 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) * January 12 – Marta Anna Wiecka, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (d. 1904) * January 16 – Robert W. Service, American poet (d. 1958) *
January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. *1156 – Finnish peasant Lalli kills English clergyman Henry (bishop of Finland), Henry, the Bishop of Turku, on the ice of Köyliönjärvi, Lake Köyli ...
– Steve Bloomer, English footballer, cricketer and baseball player (d. 1938) * January 21 – Frederick M. Smith, American religious leader, author (d. 1946) * January 25 – W. Somerset Maugham, English author (d. 1965) * January 28 ** Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1940) ** Gheorghe Mironescu, two-time prime minister of Romania (d. 1949) * January 29 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)


February

* February 1 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929) * February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer, patron of the arts (d. 1946) * February 6 – Henry C. Mustin (1874–1923), Henry C. Mustin, American naval aviation pioneer (d. 1923) * February 9 – Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925) * February 11 ** Elsa Beskow, Swedish writer (d. 1953) ** Fritz Hart, English-born composer (d. 1949) * February 15 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922) * February 17 – Thomas J. Watson, American computer pioneer (d. 1956) * February 19 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (d. 1953) * February 20 – Mary Garden, American opera soprano of Scots descent (some sources state her birth year as 1877) (d. 1967) *
February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone o ...
– Konstantin Päts, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956) *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...
– Honus Wagner, American baseball player (d. 1955) * February 26 – Nikolai Korotkov, Russian surgeon (d. 1920) * February 28 – Pawang Nong, Pahang Hero (d. 1977)


March

* March 5 – Henry Travers, English actor (d. 1965) * March 16 – Frédéric François-Marsal, Prime Minister of France (d. 1958) * March 24 ** Luigi Einaudi, 2nd president of Italy (d. 1961) ** Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926) * March 26 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963) * March 29 ** Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944) ** Rudolf Maister, Slovene military officer, leader of "Maister's Fighters" (d. 1934) * March 30 ** Charles Herbert Lightoller, 2nd Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1952) ** Nicolae Rădescu, 45th prime minister of Romania (d. 1953)


April

* April 1 – Emmi Mäkelin, Finnish midwife and politician (d. 1962) * April 8 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (d. 1960) * April 14 – Matti Lonkainen, Finnish politician (d. 1918) *
April 15 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guisca ...
– Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) * April 19 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist (d. 1952) * April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937) * April 28 – Sidney Toler, American actor, playwright and theatre director (d. 1947)


May

* May 3 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934) *
May 9 Events Pre-1600 * 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria. * 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy. * 1386 – England and Portugal formall ...
– Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939) *
May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France Robert II ( 972 – 20 July 1031), called the Pious () or the Wise (), was List of French monarchs, King of the Franks from 996 to 1031, the second from the Capetian dynasty. Crowned Juni ...
– Polaire, French actress, singer (d. 1939) * May 17 – Mikhail Diterikhs, Russian general (d. 1937) * May 19 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955) *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. ...
– D. F. Malan, 4th prime minister of South Africa (d. 1959) * May 26 – Henri Farman, French pilot and aircraft designer (d. 1958) *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &nda ...
– Dustin Farnum, American actor (d. 1929) * May 29 – G. K. Chesterton, English author (d. 1936)


June

* June 11 – Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer (d. 1951) * June 16 – Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960) * June 17 – Grant Mitchell (actor), Grant Mitchell, American actor (d. 1957) * June 18 – King George Tupou II of Tonga (d. 1918)


July

* July 3 – R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1947) * July 5 – Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics (d. 1967) * July 6 – Isaías de Noronha, 13th President of Brazil (d. 1963) *
July 14 Events Pre-1600 * 982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy. *1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II. * 142 ...
– Abbas II of Egypt, Abbas II, last khedive of Egypt (d. 1944) * July 25 – Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam (d. 1957) * July 26 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (d. 1951) * July 27 – Frank Shannon, Irish-born American actor (d. 1959) * July 29 – J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)


August

* August 1 – Constantin Levaditi, Romanian physician and microbiologist (d. 1953) * August 6 – Charles Fort, Dutch-American writer, researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932) * August 8 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, British-American businessman (d. 1948) * August 10 **Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964) **Jirō Minami, Japanese general, Governor-General of Korea (1936–1942) (d. 1955) **Tod Sloan (jockey), Tod Sloan, American jockey (d. 1933) * August 14 – Bertha M. Wilson, American dramatist, critic, and actress (d. 1936) * August 27 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)


September

* September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman, British botanist (d. 1955) * September 13 ** Henry F. Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962) ** Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (d. 1951) * September 20 – Barbara Schack, Sudeten German politician (d. 1958) * September 21 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934) * September 23 – Ernst Streeruwitz, 6th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1952)


October

* October 3 – Charles Middleton (actor), Charles Middleton, American actor (d. 1949) * October 8 ** István Bethlen, 28th prime minister of Hungary (d. 1946) ** Nance O'Neil, American stage and film actress (d. 1965) * October 9 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947) * October 13 – József Klekl (politician), József Klekl, Slovenes, Slovene politician in Hungary (d. 1948) * October 15 – Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899) * October 17 – Lumsden Hare, Irish-born actor, theatre director and producer (d. 1964) * October 20 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954) * October 26 – Martin Lowry, English chemist (d. 1936)


November

* November 1 – Salima Machamba, List of sultans on the Comoros, Sultan of Mohéli (d. 1964) * November 13 – Henry Kolker, American stage, screen actor (d. 1947) * November 14 – Johann Schober, 3rd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1932) * November 15 – August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1949) * November 22 – Elizabeth Patterson (actress), Elizabeth Patterson, actress (d. 1966) * November 27 – Chaim Weizmann, 1st president of Israel (d. 1952) * November 29 – António Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1955) * November 30 ** Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1965) ** Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Austrian physicist (d. 1915) ** Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)


December

* December 2 – Eleanor Addison Phillips, English educator and founder of the world's first Soroptimist Movement, the Venture Club (d. 1952) * December 11 ** James L. Kraft, Canadian-American entrepreneur, inventor (d. 1953) ** Paul Wegener, German actor, film director, and screenwriter; one of the pioneers of German Expressionism (d. 1948) * December 13 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944) * December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950) * December 22 – Franz Schmidt (composer), Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939) * December 26 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Indian educationist, philosopher, philanthropist, social reformer, Sufi thinker, scientist and spiritual person (d. 1965) * December 29 – Thomas W. Benoist, American aviator, aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the world's first scheduled airline (d. 1917)


Deaths


January–June

* January 8 – Abbé Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer, historian (b. 1814) * January 14 – Johann Philipp Reis, German scientist, inventor (b. 1834) * January 17 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins, sideshow performers (b. 1811) * January 19 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798) * January 28 – Ludwig von Gablenz, Austrian general (suicide) (b. 1814) * February 3 – William Charles Lunalilo, last monarch of the House of Kamehameha (b. 1835) * February 8 – David Friedrich Strauss, German theologian (b. 1808) *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...
– John Bachman, American Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist (b. 1790) * February 27 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban revolutionary hero (b. 1819) * March 8 – Millard Fillmore, 74, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800) * March 10 – Moritz von Jacobi, German engineer, physicist (b. 1801) * March 11 – Charles Sumner, American senator, civil rights activist (b. 1811) * March 20 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810) * March 30 – Carl Julian (von) Graba, German lawyer and ornithologist who visited the Faroe Islands (b. 1799) * April 13 – Etō Shimpei, Japanese statesman (executed) (b. 1834) * April 20 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1807) * June 17 – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, Sir Stephen Glynne, British antiquary and politician (b. 1817) * June 20 – John Ruggles, American politician (b. 1789) * June 21 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)


July–December

* July 8 – Agnes Strickland, English popular historian (b. 1796) * July 12 – Fritz Reuter, German novelist (b. 1810) *
July 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. * 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. * 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of S ...
– Gijsbert Haan, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1801) * August 14 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, African-American minister, politician (b. 1821) * August 26 – Julie-Victoire Daubié, French journalist (b. 1824) * August 27 – Ștefan Golescu, 8th prime minister of Romania (b. 1809) * September 12 – François Guizot, Prime Minister of France (b. 1787) * October 5 – Charles-Mathias Simons, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1802) * October 6 – Samuel M. Kier, American oil magnate (b. 1813) * October 23 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, a founder of European Reform Judaism (b. 1810) * October 28 – William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (b. 1825) * November 17 – Francisco de Lersundi y Hormaechea, Spanish noble and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1817) * November 18 – Sir Henry Prescott, British admiral and colonial administrator (b. 1783) * November 29 – Ioan Manu, Russian politician (b. 1803) * December 6 – John Boyle (MP), John Boyle, British politician (b. 1803) * December 7 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German Biblical scholar (b. 1815) * December 22 – Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist, composer (b. 1788) * December 24 – Anna McClarmonde Chase, American spy (b. 1809)


References

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