6 events found for 1874
Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem was first performed in the San Marco church in Milan to commemorate the first anniversary of Al
The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian…
A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and…
Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American…
The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of…