1887

This article is about the year 1887.

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v · Gregorian calendar	1887 MDCCCLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2640
Armenian calendar	1336 ԹՎ ՌՅԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6637
Bahá'í calendar	43 – 44
Bengali calendar	1294
Berber calendar	2837
British Regnal year	50 Vict. 1 – 51 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2431
Burmese calendar	1249
Byzantine calendar	7395 – 7396
Chinese calendar	丙戌年十二月初八日 (4523/4583-12-8) — to — 丁亥年十一月十七日 (4524/4584-11-17)
Coptic calendar	1603 – 1604
Ethiopian calendar	1879 – 1880
Hebrew calendar	5647 – 5648
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1943 – 1944
- Shaka Samvat	1809 – 1810
- Kali Yuga	4988 – 4989
Holocene calendar	11887
Iranian calendar	1265 – 1266
Islamic calendar	1304 – 1305
Japanese calendar	Meiji 20 (明治20年)
Korean calendar	4220
Minguo calendar	25 before ROC 民前25年
Thai solar calendar	2430
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Year 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

January 6: Menelik II

• January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the French Academy of Medicine by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
• January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• January 21
  • The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
  • Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres – a record for any Australian capital city.

March 3: Helen Keller and Sullivan.

• January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians.
• January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
• January 28 – Construction of the foundations of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
• February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• February 5 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala.
• February 8 – The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is enacted.
• February 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
• February 26 – At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
• March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
• March 4 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile.
• March 7 – North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
• March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs.
• March 19 – Henry Cogswell College is established by Henry D. Cogswell.

March 4: Daimler

April–June

• April 1 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
• April 4 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• April 10 – The Catholic University of America is founded on Easter Sunday.
• April 21 – Schnaebele incident – French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two countries.
• April 20 – Occidental College is founded.
• May 3 – An earthquake hits Sonora, Mexico.
• May 9 – Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
• May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
• June 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator.
• June 18 – The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
• June 21 – The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of her reign.^[1]
• June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.^[2]
• June 28 – Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.

June 23: Banff National Park.

• June 29 – The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane.

July–September

• July 1 – Construction of the metal structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France
• July 9 – Frances Gordy murdered by Jonathon White^{[disambiguation needed ]} in Auburn, AL in the antebellum home located in 1133 East University Drive.
• July 12 – Odense Boldklub, the Danish football team, is founded as the Odense Cricket Club.
• July 26 – L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Tongue".
• August – The U.S. National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, NY, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
• August 13 – The Hibernian F.C. defeats Preston North End to win the "Championship of the World" after the two teams win the Association football Cup competitions in their respective countries.
• September 5 – The Theatre Royal, Exeter, England burns down, killing 186 people.
• September 28 – Start of the 1887 Yellow River flood in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.

July 26: Esperanto

October–December

• October 1 – The British Empire takes over Balochistan.
• October 3 – Florida A&M University opens its doors in Tallahassee, Florida.
• November
  • Results of the Michelson-Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.
• November 3 – The Associação Académica de Coimbra, the students' union of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, is founded.
• November 8 – Emile Berliner is granted a patent for his Gramophone.
• November 10 – Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Riot bomb, kills himself by dynamite.
• November 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886.
• November 13 – Bloody Sunday: Police clash with pro-Irish independence protesters.

November: Michelson-Morley.

• December 5 – International Bureau of Intellectual Property.
• December 25 – Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky is first produced.

Date unknown

• Franz König publishes "Über freie Körper in den Gelenken" in the medical journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, describing (and naming) the disease Osteochondritis dissecans for the first time.
• Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded.
• Thomas Stevens is the first man to bicycle around the world.
• The New Gate is built in Jerusalem.
• The comptometer is patented by Dorr Eugene Felt.
• The first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals are held.
• Japan annexes Iwo Jima.
• Zululand becomes a British colony.
• Construction of Spandau Prison in Berlin is completed.
• Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves (radio). This was an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light.
• The U.S. Congress passes the Interstate Commerce Act.
• Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick invents the contact lens, made of a type of brown glass.
• A. G. Edwards, Inc., is founded by General Albert Gallatin Edwards.
• Heyl & Patterson Inc., a pioneer in coal unloading equipment, is founded by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson.

Heinrich Hertz.

Yellow River flood kills 900,000 people living along its banks.

• Laos and Cambodia are added to French Indochina.
• Antonio Guzmán Blanco ends his term as President of Venezuela.
• Publication in Barcelona of Enrique Gaspar's El anacronópete, the first work of fiction to feature a time machine.^[3]
• Publication begins of Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo, the first modern novel in Japan.

Births

January–June

• January 1 – Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945)
• January 3 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• January 10 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
• January 13 – Jorge Chavez, pioneer Peruvian aviator (d. 1910)
• January 17 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
• January 19 – Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943)
• January 21 – Maude Davis, oldest person in the World (d. 2002)
• January 22 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
• January 23 – Dorothy Payne Whitney, American-born philanthropist and social activist (d. 1968)
• January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
• February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
• February 2 – Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933)
• February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914)
• February 4 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer (d. 1955)
• February 6 – Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
• February 10 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)
• February 11
  • Ernst Hanfstängl, German-born pianist and U.S. politician (d. 1975)
  • John van Melle, Dutch-born writer (d. 1953)
• February 17 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
• February 20 – Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
• February 26
  • Grover Cleveland Alexander, baseball player (d. 1950)
  • William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
• March 3 – Lincoln Beachey, American stunt pilot (d. 1915)
• March 4 – Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
• March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
• March 9 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• March 14 – Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952)
• March 14 – Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
• March 22 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
• March 23
  • Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
  • Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
• March 24 – Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
• April 10 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• April 15 – Mike Brady, American golfer (d. 1972)
• May 2 – Eddie Collins, baseball player (d. 1951)
• May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)
• May 10 – Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, 40th master of the Oveyssi Sufi Order (d. 1962)
• May 11 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951)
• May 25 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian saint (d. 1968)
• May 26 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971)
• May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• June 2 – Orrick Johns, American poet and playwright (d. 1946)
• June 22 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• June 25 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)

July–December

• July 7 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985)
• July 16 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (d. 1951)
• July 18 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945)
• July 22 – Gustav Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• July 28 – Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968)
• July 29 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
• August 3 – Rupert Brooke, British war poet (d. 1915)
• August 12 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• August 13 – Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)
• August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968)other sources give year of her birth as 1885
• August 17
  • Emperor Karl I of Austria (d. 1922)
  • Marcus Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and Pan Africanist (d. 1940)
• August 24 – Harry Hooper, baseball player (d. 1974)
• August 28 – István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (d. 1922)
• September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
• September 3 – Frank Christian, American jazz musician (d. 1973)
• September 12 – Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, Azerbaijani statesman and writer, core author of novel Ali and Nino, [d. 1943, in GULAG].
• September 13 – Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• September 16
  • Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979)
  • Kamato Hongo, the last verified living person born in 1887 (d. 2003)
• September 26 – Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (d. 1958)
• September 28 – Avery Brundage, American sports official (d. 1975)
• October 1 – Violet Jessop, RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1971)
• October 5 – René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976)
• October 6 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
• October 8 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-born actor (d. 1956)
• October 22 – John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
• October 31 – Chiang Kai-shek, 1st ～ 5th President of the Republic of China (d. 1975)
• November 1 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (d.1976)
• November 6 – Walter Johnson, baseball player (d. 1946)
• November 10 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)
• November 15 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American Woman Painter (d.1986)
• November 17 – Bernard Montgomery, World War II British commander (d. 1976)
• November 19 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• November 23 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
• November 28 – Jacobo Palm, Curaçao born composer (d. 1982)
• December 12 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
• December 13 – Alvin Cullum York, American war hero during World War I (d. 1964)
• December 22 – Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920)
• December 25 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d.1979)

Deaths

January–June

• February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
• February 26 – Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman doctor (b. 1865)
• February 27 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833)
• March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813)
• March 24 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter (b. 1837)
• March 28 – Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Danish politician (b. 1811)
• April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, Welsh poet (b. 1832)
• May 7 – CFW Walther, German-American theologian (b. 1811)
• May 8 – Aleksandr Ulyanov, Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin (b. 1866)
• May 14 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808)
• June 4 – William A. Wheeler, Vice President of the United States, (b. 1819)
• June 10 – Richard Lindon, Inventor of the rugby ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump for the same (b. 1816)

July–December

• July 8 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (b. 1820)
• July 17 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802)
• July 25 – John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
• August 8 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
• August 19 – Alvan Clark, telescope manufacturer (b. 1804)
• August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
• October 17 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
• October 21 – Bernard Jauréguiberry, admiral (b. 1815)
• November 2 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
• November 8 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
• November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859)
• November 28 – Gustav Fechner, experimental psychologist (b. 1801)
• December 28 – Ali Raza^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Proude of Pakistan (b. 1804)

References

1. ^ Royal.gov.uk
2. ^ pc.gc.ca
3. ^ Westcott, Kathryn (2011-04-09). "HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-europe-12900390. Retrieved 2011-04-09.