10 events found for 1887
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on o
Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calcul
The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed
The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park
The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of…
Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
Granny, a sea anemone, died in Edinburgh after nearly 60 years in captivity. Her death was reported in The Scotsman…
A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter kills 186, making it the UK's deadliest ever building fire.