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1872 1873 1874 - 1875 - 1876 1877 1878 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1840s 1850s 1860s - '''1870s''' - 1880s 1890s 1900s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
18th_century - '''19th_century''' - 20th_century
{{C19YearInTopic}} |} '''1875''' was a Common_year_starting_on_Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO_8601 Calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention_du_Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year. ==Events== ===January - April=== * January_12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. * February_27 - Newton_Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant_Governor_of_California Romualdo_Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected governor William_Irwin. * March_3 - The first performance of Bizet’s ''Carmen'' at the Opéra_Comique, Paris * March_3 - The first organized indoor game of ice hockey was played between two pick-up teams at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal. ===May - August=== * May_7 - SS_Schiller wrecks on rocks off the Isles_of_Scilly. * May_17 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky_Derby. * May_20 - Convention_du_Mètre signed in Paris. * August_25 - Captain Matthew_Webb becomes the first person to swim the English_Channel. ===September - December=== * September_1 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly_Maguires", to disband. * November_9 - Indian_Wars: In Washington,_D.C., Indian Inspector E.C._Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting_Bull and Crazy_Horse are hostile to the United_States (the Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year). * November_16 - Battle at Gundet - Abyssinean emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians * December_4 - Notorious New_York_City politician Boss_Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain. ===Unknown date=== *Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court. *Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia. * Tong_wars begin in San_Francisco * The Theosophical_Society was founded in New York by Helena_Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others. * The Arya_Samaj was founded in Mumbai by Swami_Dayananda. ==Births== ==January== * January_5 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer (d. 1941) *January_7 - Thomas_J._Hicks, American runner (d. 1963) *January_9 - Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney, American sculptor and socialite (d. 1942) *January_11 - Reinhold_Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956) *January_14 - Albert_Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1965) *January_15 - Tom_Burke, American runner (d. 1929) *January_22 - D._W._Griffith, American film director (d. 1948) ==February== *February_2 - Fritz_Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962) *February_21 - Jeanne_Calment, Oldest person in recorded history (d. 1997) ==March== *March_7 - Maurice_Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) *March_26 - Syngman_Rhee, President_of_South_Korea (d. 1965) *March_30 - Jonathan_Campbell, American film pioneer (d. 1942) ==April== *April_1 - Edgar_Wallace, English writer (d. 1932) *April_2 - Walter_Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940) *April_4 - Pierre_Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964) *April_5 - Mistinguett, French singer (d. 1956) *April_8 - King Albert_I_of_Belgium (d. 1934) *April_15 - James_J._Jeffries, American boxer (d. 1953) ==May== *May_11 - Harriet_Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912) *May_12 - Krishna_Chandra_Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (d. 1949) ==June== *June_6 - Thomas_Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) *June_12 - Sam_De_Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953) *June_24 - Diedrich_Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956) *June_28 - Henri_Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941) ==July== *July_26 - Carl_Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961) *July 26 - Antonio_Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939) ==August== *August_15 - Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912) *August_21 - Winnifred_Eaton, Canadian author (d. 1954) *August_27 - Katharine_McCormick, American suffragist (d. 1967) ==September== *September_1 - Edgar_Rice_Burroughs, American author (d. 1950) ==October== *October_1 - Eugeen_Van_Mieghem, Belgian painter (d. 1930) *October_12 - Aleister_Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947) *October_23 - Gilbert_N._Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946) ==December== *December_4 - Rainer_Maria_Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926) *December_5 - Arthur_Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933) *December_19 - Mileva_Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife (d. 1948) *December_25 - Theodor_Cardinal_Innitzer, Austrian Catholic cardinal (d. 1955) ==Deaths== * January_23 - Charles_Kingsley, English writer (b. 1819) * February_22 - Jean-Baptiste_Camille_Corot, French painter (b. 1796) * February 22 - Sir Charles_Lyell, British geologist (b. 1797) * March_1 - Tristan_Corbière, French poet (b. 1845) * May_17 - John_C._Breckinridge, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (b. 1821) * June_3 - Georges_Bizet, French composer (b. 1836) * June_4 - Eduard_Mörike, German poet (b. 1804) * June_25- Antoine-Louis_Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796) * July_30 - George_Pickett, American Confederate General (b. 1825) * July_31 - Andrew_Johnson, 17th President_of_the_United_States (b. 1808) * August_4 - Hans_Christian_Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805) * August_10 - Karl_Andree, German geographer (b. 1808) * August_17 - Wilhelm_Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) * September_22 - Charles_Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (b. 1786) * October_10 - Aleksey_Konstantinovich_Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1817) * October_12 - Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827) * November_22 - Henry_Wilson, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (b. 1812) * November_24 - William_Backhouse_Astor,_Sr., American businessman (b. 1792) Category:1875 Af:1875 Ar:1875 Ast:1875 Bg:1875 Be:1875 Bs:1875 Ca:1875 Cv:1875 Cs:1875 Cy:1875 Da:1875 De:1875 Et:1875 El:1875 Es:1875 Eo:1875 Eu:1875 Fr:1875 Fy:1875 Ga:1875 Gl:1875 Ko:1875년 Hr:1875 Io:1875 Id:1875 Ia:1875 Is:1875 It:1875 He:1875 Ka:1875 Csb:1875 La:1875 Lt:1875 Lb:1875 Hu:1875 Mk:1875 Ms:1875 Nl:1875 No:1875 Nn:1875 Os:1875 Pl:1875 Pt:1875 Ro:1875 Ru:1875 Sq:1875 Scn:1875 Simple:1875 Sk:1875 Sl:1875 Sr:1875 Fi:1875 Sv:1875 Tt:1875 Th:พ.ศ._2418 Tr:1875 Uk:1875 Wa:1875 Zh:1875年
1872 1873 1874 - 1875 - 1876 1877 1878 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1840s 1850s 1860s - '''1870s''' - 1880s 1890s 1900s |- | align="center" | '''Centuries:'''
18th_century - '''19th_century''' - 20th_century
{{C19YearInTopic}} |} '''1875''' was a Common_year_starting_on_Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO_8601 Calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention_du_Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year. ==Events== ===January - April=== * January_12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. * February_27 - Newton_Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant_Governor_of_California Romualdo_Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected governor William_Irwin. * March_3 - The first performance of Bizet’s ''Carmen'' at the Opéra_Comique, Paris * March_3 - The first organized indoor game of ice hockey was played between two pick-up teams at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal. ===May - August=== * May_7 - SS_Schiller wrecks on rocks off the Isles_of_Scilly. * May_17 - Aristides wins the first Kentucky_Derby. * May_20 - Convention_du_Mètre signed in Paris. * August_25 - Captain Matthew_Webb becomes the first person to swim the English_Channel. ===September - December=== * September_1 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly_Maguires", to disband. * November_9 - Indian_Wars: In Washington,_D.C., Indian Inspector E.C._Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting_Bull and Crazy_Horse are hostile to the United_States (the Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year). * November_16 - Battle at Gundet - Abyssinean emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians * December_4 - Notorious New_York_City politician Boss_Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain. ===Unknown date=== *Wimbledon: Henry Cavendish Jones convinced the "All England Croquet Club" to replace a croquet court with a lawn tennis court. *Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia. * Tong_wars begin in San_Francisco * The Theosophical_Society was founded in New York by Helena_Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others. * The Arya_Samaj was founded in Mumbai by Swami_Dayananda. ==Births== ==January== * January_5 - James Stuart Blackton, American film producer (d. 1941) *January_7 - Thomas_J._Hicks, American runner (d. 1963) *January_9 - Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney, American sculptor and socialite (d. 1942) *January_11 - Reinhold_Glière, Russian composer (d. 1956) *January_14 - Albert_Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1965) *January_15 - Tom_Burke, American runner (d. 1929) *January_22 - D._W._Griffith, American film director (d. 1948) ==February== *February_2 - Fritz_Kreisler, Austrian violinist (d. 1962) *February_21 - Jeanne_Calment, Oldest person in recorded history (d. 1997) ==March== *March_7 - Maurice_Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) *March_26 - Syngman_Rhee, President_of_South_Korea (d. 1965) *March_30 - Jonathan_Campbell, American film pioneer (d. 1942) ==April== *April_1 - Edgar_Wallace, English writer (d. 1932) *April_2 - Walter_Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (d. 1940) *April_4 - Pierre_Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964) *April_5 - Mistinguett, French singer (d. 1956) *April_8 - King Albert_I_of_Belgium (d. 1934) *April_15 - James_J._Jeffries, American boxer (d. 1953) ==May== *May_11 - Harriet_Quimby, American pilot (d. 1912) *May_12 - Krishna_Chandra_Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (d. 1949) ==June== *June_6 - Thomas_Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) *June_12 - Sam_De_Grasse, Canadian actor (d. 1953) *June_24 - Diedrich_Westermann, German linguist (d. 1956) *June_28 - Henri_Lebesgue, French mathematician (d. 1941) ==July== *July_26 - Carl_Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961) *July 26 - Antonio_Machado, Spanish poet (d. 1939) ==August== *August_15 - Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912) *August_21 - Winnifred_Eaton, Canadian author (d. 1954) *August_27 - Katharine_McCormick, American suffragist (d. 1967) ==September== *September_1 - Edgar_Rice_Burroughs, American author (d. 1950) ==October== *October_1 - Eugeen_Van_Mieghem, Belgian painter (d. 1930) *October_12 - Aleister_Crowley, British occultist (d. 1947) *October_23 - Gilbert_N._Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946) ==December== *December_4 - Rainer_Maria_Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926) *December_5 - Arthur_Currie, Canadian military leader (d. 1933) *December_19 - Mileva_Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife (d. 1948) *December_25 - Theodor_Cardinal_Innitzer, Austrian Catholic cardinal (d. 1955) ==Deaths== * January_23 - Charles_Kingsley, English writer (b. 1819) * February_22 - Jean-Baptiste_Camille_Corot, French painter (b. 1796) * February 22 - Sir Charles_Lyell, British geologist (b. 1797) * March_1 - Tristan_Corbière, French poet (b. 1845) * May_17 - John_C._Breckinridge, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (b. 1821) * June_3 - Georges_Bizet, French composer (b. 1836) * June_4 - Eduard_Mörike, German poet (b. 1804) * June_25- Antoine-Louis_Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796) * July_30 - George_Pickett, American Confederate General (b. 1825) * July_31 - Andrew_Johnson, 17th President_of_the_United_States (b. 1808) * August_4 - Hans_Christian_Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805) * August_10 - Karl_Andree, German geographer (b. 1808) * August_17 - Wilhelm_Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) * September_22 - Charles_Bianconi, Italian-Irish entrepreneur (b. 1786) * October_10 - Aleksey_Konstantinovich_Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1817) * October_12 - Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827) * November_22 - Henry_Wilson, Vice_President_of_the_United_States (b. 1812) * November_24 - William_Backhouse_Astor,_Sr., American businessman (b. 1792) Category:1875 Af:1875 Ar:1875 Ast:1875 Bg:1875 Be:1875 Bs:1875 Ca:1875 Cv:1875 Cs:1875 Cy:1875 Da:1875 De:1875 Et:1875 El:1875 Es:1875 Eo:1875 Eu:1875 Fr:1875 Fy:1875 Ga:1875 Gl:1875 Ko:1875년 Hr:1875 Io:1875 Id:1875 Ia:1875 Is:1875 It:1875 He:1875 Ka:1875 Csb:1875 La:1875 Lt:1875 Lb:1875 Hu:1875 Mk:1875 Ms:1875 Nl:1875 No:1875 Nn:1875 Os:1875 Pl:1875 Pt:1875 Ro:1875 Ru:1875 Sq:1875 Scn:1875 Simple:1875 Sk:1875 Sl:1875 Sr:1875 Fi:1875 Sv:1875 Tt:1875 Th:พ.ศ._2418 Tr:1875 Uk:1875 Wa:1875 Zh:1875年