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List of 1874 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1874

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Date Event
January 20, 1874 The Treaty of Pangkor is signed between the British and Sultan Abdullah of Perak, paving the way for further British colonization of Malaya.
January 27, 1874 Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg
February 21, 1874 The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
March 15, 1874 France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
March 18, 1874 The Hawaiian Kingdom signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
May 16, 1874 A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
May 27, 1874 The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
June 29, 1874 Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
July 1, 1874 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
July 8, 1874 The Mounties begin their March West.
July 14, 1874 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 23, 1874 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
July 31, 1874 Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
August 5, 1874 Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
October 9, 1874 The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
November 7, 1874 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.
November 25, 1874 The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
December 29, 1874 The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.