1874 Events January 1 - New York City annexes The Bronx January 23 - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. 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. May 20 - Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets July 1 - the first public zoo in the U.S. opens, at Philadelphia. 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 7 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/CartoonOfTheDay.asp?Year=2003?Month=November?Date=7. 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. Births January 1 - Gustav Albin Weißkopf , later known as Gustave Albin Whitehead, German-American aviation pioneer January 4 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935) January 16 - Robert W. Service, poet (d. 1958) January 21 - Frederick Madison Smith, American religious leader and author January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, (d. 1965) January 29 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., entrepreneur February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist (d. 1929) February 3 - Gertrude Stein, writer and patron of the arts (d. 1946) February 9 - Amy Lowell, poet (d. 1925) February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author February 11 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer February 15 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, legendary explorer February 17 - Thomas J. Watson, computer pioneer, first president of IBM February 24 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1955) March 20 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet (d. 1945) March 24 - Harry Houdini, magician March 26 - Robert Frost, poet (d. 1963) March 29 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944) April 25 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, "the father of radio", recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (d. 1937) May 9 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939) May 14 - Polaire - French actress and singer (d. 1939) May 29 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author June 11 - Lyman Gilmore, Choctaw Native American airplane pioneer. June 16 - Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of Canada July 14 - Abbas II, last khedive of Egypt July 26 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951) September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer September 21 - Gustav Holst, English composer October 20 - Charles Ives, musician, composer October 26 - Martin Lowry, English physical chemist. October 30 - Bin Ueda, Japanese writer. November 30 - Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and author November 30 - Lucy Maude Montgomery, Canadian author December 13 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist (d. 1944) December 15 - Shoken Kamitsukasa, Japanese writer December 17- William Lyon Mackenzie King, former Canadian Prime Minister December 22 - Franz Schmidt, composer Deaths February 8 - David Friedrich Strauss, German theologian March 8 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853 Constantin von Tischendorf, Biblical scholar ast:1874 FAVORITE ARTICLES: History of the World    History of the United States    History of Europe    Ancient History    History    Military History    World War I    Bombing of Dresden    California    US Constitution    Frank Sinatra    Boston    Marbury v. Madison This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. You must provide a link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html To view or edit this article at Wikipedia go to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874