See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Franco-Prussian War.
January 6 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
January 10 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
January 15 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic
Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's
Weekly).
January 26 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
January 27 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
February 2 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not
the petrified remains of a human.
February 3 - The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
February 10 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
February 10 - The YWCA is founded (New York City).
February 12 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
February 23 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
February 25 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the
United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the United
States Congress.
February 26 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.
March 30 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
May 12 - The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red
River Rebellion.
May 14 - First rugby match to be played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football
Club and Nelson College.
July 15 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate states to be
readmitted to the Union.
July 19 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
September 2 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat the French
armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
September 4 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is
declared.
September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of
Italy is completed. End of the temporal power of Papacy.
November 1 - In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the
National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at
Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".
November 16 - Spanish Cortes proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as king Amadeus I of Spain.
Births:
January 2 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
January 2 -
Pleuntje van den Houten.
January 3 -
Jan Willem van den Houten.
January 8 -
Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930).
January 15 -
Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist.
January 16 -
Hendrik Jan van Deutekom.
February 2 -
Pieter Kamerling.
February 7 -
Alfred Adler, psychologist.
February 9 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
February 28 -
Jan van den Houten.
March 3 -
Geertje van den Houten.
March 5 -
Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902).
March 7 -
Aart van den Houten.
March 17 -
Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951).
Early April -
Floris van de Panne.
April 7 -
Matilda Rosenboom.
April 21 -
Leendert Luikaart.
April 22 -
Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR.
April 30 -
Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948).
May 4 -
Johannus van den Houten.
May 19 -
Albert Fish, serial killer.
July 3 -
Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
July 12 -
Louis II of Monaco.
July 29 -
George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion
in any weight class.
August 31 -
Maria Montessori, educator.
September 16 -
Adriana van den Houte.
September 26 - King
Christian X of Denmark.
November 21 -
Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official.
November 28 -
Willemina van den Houten.
December 5 -
Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949).
December 8 -
Maria van den Houten.
December 21 -
Elisabeth Ruit.
Willem Conrad Troast.
Folkelina (Lena) van Houten.
Deaths:
January 9 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
February 11 -
Maria Teunisse Breesnee.
February 11 -
Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
February 11 -
Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer.
March 2 -
Maatje van den Houten.
March 21 -
Pieter Kamerling.
March 23 -
Maria van den Houten.
March 25 -
Cornelia van der Sloot.
March 28 -
George Henry Thomas, American general.
May 23 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
May 23 -
Floris van de Panne.
May 25 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
June 9 -
Charles Dickens, British novelist.
July 20 -
Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt.
July 25 -
Johannus van den Houten.
October 12 -
Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.
October 23 -
Leendert Luikaart.
November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
November 25 -
Pleuntje van den Houten.
December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author.
December 20 -
Krina van de Velde.
December 27 -
General Prim, Spanish dictator.
Henry Rowe - Gothic architect.
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