1874


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::callout[type=note] 1874 ::

Events

January

February

  • February 21 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first issue in California.
  • February 23Walter Clopton Wingfield patents in Britain a game called "sphairistike", more commonly called lawn tennis.
  • February 2425Third Carlist War: 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

  • March 14Third Carlist War: 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, and captured along with about 2,000 of his men. Olot capitulates two days later.
  • March 15France and Viet Nam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
  • March 18
    • Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States, granting exclusive trading rights.
    • The Dresden English Football Club is founded, the first association football club on the European mainland.
  • March 25 – The Republic of Ecuador is consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, carried out by President Gabriel García Moreno and supported, blessed and specified by Pope Pius IX.
  • March 2527Third Carlist War: 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 – The Young Men's Hebrew Association in Manhattan (which will still be operating 150 years later as the 92nd Street Y) is founded.

April

May

June

July

  • July 1
  • July 14 – 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
    • Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp, with an electric light bulb.
    • Third Carlist War: 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 31Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., the first Black man to receive a PhD, is inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic University in America, and becomes the first Black person to head a predominantly White university.

August

  • August 11Third Carlist War: 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

October

November

December

Date unknown

Births

January

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/John_D._Rockefeller_Jr._cph.3a03736.jpg" caption="[[John D. Rockefeller Jr."] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Honus_Wagner_(crop).JPG" caption="[[Honus Wagner"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/HarryHoudini1899.jpg" caption="[[Harry Houdini"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Robert_Frost_NYWTS.jpg" caption="[[Robert Frost"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/louhenryhoover.jpg" caption="[[Lou Henry Hoover"] ::

February

March

April

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg" caption="[[Guglielmo Marconi"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Howard_carter.jpg" caption="[[Howard Carter"] ::

May

June

July

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/President_Hoover_portrait.jpg" caption="[[Herbert Hoover"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Carl_Bosch.jpg" caption="[[Carl Bosch"] ::

August

September

October

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Sir_Winston_Churchill_-_19086236948.jpg" caption="[[Winston Churchill"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/WLMackenzieKing.jpg" caption="[[William Lyon Mackenzie King"] ::

November

December

Deaths

January–June

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Moritz_Hermann_von_Jacobi_1856.jpg" caption="[[Moritz von Jacobi"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Anders_Jonas_Ångström_-_001.png" caption="[[Anders Jonas Ångström"] ::

July–December

References

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1874