Events in History
- Jan 1 The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
- Jan 15 "Die Afrikaanse Patriot", the first newspaper in Afrikaans, is published in Paarl
- Jan 31 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
- Feb 7 US President Grant's private secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
- Feb 14 Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
- Feb 15 Historic Elm at Boston blown down
- Feb 17 Sardines first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
- Feb 18 Direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand
- Feb 22 Johns Hopkins University opens
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo
Henrik Ibsen
Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
Mar 7 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
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- Mar 7 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
Mr. Watson come here, I want you
Mar 10 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson
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- Mar 17 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
- Apr 11 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes in New York City
- Apr 11 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
- Apr 18 Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hrs 32 min
- May 2 The April Uprising breaks out in Bulgaria
- May 10 Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
- May 13 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway opens
Event of Interest
May 17 7th US Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer leaves Fort Lincoln
George Armstrong Custer
- May 25 1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
- May 26 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
- May 30 Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- Jun 2 Hristo Botev, a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary, is killed in Stara Planina
- Jun 3 Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada
- Jun 4 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
- Jun 5 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia
Event of Interest
Jun 11 Republicans pick Rutherford B. Hayes as US presidential candidate
Rutherford B. Hayes
- Jun 14 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics)
- Jun 14 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
- Jun 15 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
- Jun 15 Tsunamis after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
- Jun 17 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
- Jun 17 Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
Victory in Battle
Jun 25 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"
Crazy Horse
George Armstrong Custer
Sitting Bull
- Jun 27 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Philadelphia Athletics)
- Jun 27 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
- Jun 30 Serbia declares war on Turkey
- Jul 3 Montenegro declares war on Turkey
- Jul 4 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
- Jul 4 Batholdi visits Bedloe Island, future home of his Statue of Liberty
- Jul 7 Hamburg massacre: white farmers attack a black militia in Hamburg, South Carolina with 7 killed
- Jul 13 29th US Postmaster General: James N Tyner of Indiana takes office
- Jul 20 1st US intercollegiate track meet held, Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
- Jul 31 US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford Massachusetts)
- Aug 1 Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union
- Aug 8 Dan O'Leacy completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
Historic Invention
Aug 8 Thomas Edison is granted the patent for Autographic Printing (US Patent 180,857)
Thomas Edison
- Aug 10 1st phone call between Brantford & Paris, Canada
- Aug 14 Prairie View State University forms
- Aug 15 US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
- Aug 24 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
- Aug 31 Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
- Sep 6 Race riot in Charleston, South Carolina
- Sep 6 Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to San Francisco completed
Event of Interest
Sep 7 Frank James and his gang are involved in a disastrous raid in Northfield, Minnesota, results in the death or capture of multiple gang members (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
Frank James
- Sep 12 King Leopold II opens Congo-conference
Historic Expedition
Sep 14 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Rwanda
Henry Morton Stanley
- Sep 14 Leopold II closes Congo-conference
- Sep 17 Race riots in South Carolina
- Sep 19 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
- Sep 23 Ottawa Rough Riders play their 1st game
- Sep 26 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)
- Oct 6 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
- Oct 9 1st 2-way telephone conversation, 1st over outdoor wires
- Oct 16 Race riot at Cainhoy SC (5 whites & 1 black killed)
- Oct 17 Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River
- Oct 23 New Orleans Mint reopens as an assay office
- Oct 26 US President sends federal troops to Southern Carolina
- Oct 31 Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 ravages British India (Modern-day Bangladesh), over 200,000 killed
- Nov 1 King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
- Nov 1 New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
- Nov 5 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe
- Nov 7 Edward Bouchet is 1st African American to receive a Ph.D from a US college (Yale)
- Nov 7 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennessee College
- Nov 7 President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claim presidential victory as Tilden (D) wins popular vote but Electoral College votes are disputed with Hayes (R)
- Nov 21 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives
- Nov 23 Columbia, Harvard & Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
- Nov 25 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Event of Interest
Nov 30 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) "the Mona Lisa of prehistory" [1]
Heinrich Schliemann
- Dec 5 Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
- Dec 5 Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
- Dec 6 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Pennsylvania
- Dec 6 US Electoral College casts their votes in the disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden; two sets of conflicting results are returned to Congress the next day
- Dec 7 NY Mutuals & Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
- Dec 8 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
- Dec 23 Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
- Dec 29 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula, Ohio, 92 die
Birthdays in History
Konrad Adenauer
Jan 5 Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1967)
Konrad Adenauer
- Jan 9 Hans Bethge, German poet, born in Dessau (d. 1946)
- Jan 10 Jan Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1957)
- Jan 12 Jack London, American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild), born in San Francisco (d. 1916)
- Jan 17 Olga Fastrová, Czech writer and editor (National Policy), born in Prague (d. 1965)
- Jan 17 Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
- Feb 6 Wilhelm August Schmidtbonn, German writer (Der Sprechende Eros), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1952)
- Feb 8 Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter
- Feb 12 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, born in Thakpo Langdun (d. 1933)
- Feb 16 G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (d. 1962)
- Feb 19 Constantin Brancusi, Romanian French sculptor (Princesse X), born in Hobita (d. 1957)
- Feb 21 Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
- Feb 23 Agnes M Royden, writer
- Feb 25 Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1856]
- Feb 26 Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina (1932-38) during the Infamous Decade, born in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos (d. 1943)
- Feb 26 Pauline Musters, Dutch world's smallest woman at 24 inches (61 cm), born in Ossendrecht, Netherlands (d. 1895)
- Mar 4 Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
- Mar 4 Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
- Mar 10 Edvard Eriksen, Danish-Icelandic sculptor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1959)
- Mar 11 David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1941)
- Mar 20 Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
- Mar 23 Muirhead Bone, etcher/engraver of architecture, born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Mar 26 Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (1914-25), born in Neuwied, German Empire (d. 1945)
- Mar 29 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian and antifascist, born in Petit-Landau, France (d. 1941)
- Mar 30 Clifford Whittingham Beers, American mental hygiene pioneer, born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1943)
- Mar 31 Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
- Apr 4 Maurice de Vlaminck, Fauvist painter (Village in the Snow), born in Paris, France (d. 1958)
- Apr 11 Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist, born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1958)
- Apr 14 Cecil Chubb, English barrister, gifted Stonehenge to the British nation, born in Shrewton (d. 1934)
- Apr 17 Ian Hay [John Hay Beith], British novelist and playwright (Pip, Carrying On), born in Rusholme, Manchester (d. 1952)
- Apr 19 Hendrik Vladimir Albrecht Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince consort of the Netherlands (1901-34), born in Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany (d. 1934)
- Apr 23 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (The Third Reich), born in Solingen, Westphalia, German Empire (d. 1925)
- Apr 24 Erich Raeder, German naval commander (1928–43), born in Wandsbek, Germany (d. 1960)
- Apr 29 Zewditu, Empress of Ethiopia (1916-30), born in Werreyimenu, Wollo, Ethiopia (d. 1930)
- Apr 30 Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (Minister of Education), born in Augusta, Italy (d. 1937)
- May 10 Ivan Cankar, Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica)
- May 12 Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria
- May 19 William King Gregory, Greenwich Village New York, American palaeontologist (mammalian teeth, evolutionary theory)
- May 27 Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (Lenin: God of the Godless), born in Ludza, Russian Empire (d. 1945)
- Jun 11 Alfred L. Kroeber, American anthropologist and author (Anthropologist looks at History), born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1960)
- Jun 13 William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student's t-distribution), born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1937)
- Jun 21 Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist (helium vast), born in Texel, Netherlands (d. 1956)
- Jun 22 [Gwendolen] Gwen John, Welsh painter, born in Haverfordwest, Wales (d. 1939)
- Jun 28 Clara Maass, American army nurse who sacrificed her life at 25 to prove that mosquitoes carry yellow fever, born in East Orange, New Jersey (d. 1901)
- Jun 29 Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician and the 1st woman to serve as a governor (Wyoming, 1925-27), born in Saint Joseph, Missouri (d. 1977)
- Jul 2 Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23) and businessman, born in Suhl, German Empire (d. 1933)
Harry Ford Sinclair
Jul 6 Harry Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil (Teapot Dome Scandal), born in Benwood, West Virginia
Harry Ford Sinclair
- Jul 12 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, born in Quimper, Brittany, France (d. 1944)
- Jul 17 Maxim M Litvinov [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
- Jul 17 Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, lived to be 115 years old, born in Flint, Georgia (d. 1991)
- Jul 19 Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1972)
- Jul 20 Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
- Aug 5 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian (Woman as a Force in History), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1958)
- Aug 12 Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer (The Circular Staircase), born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (d. 1958)
- Aug 14 Alexander I Obrenovic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1922-34), born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1903)
- Aug 14 Sibilla Aleramo [Rina Faccio], Italian feminist and poet (Una Donna), born in Alessandria, Italy (d. 1960)
- Aug 15 Aleksandar Belic, Serbian linguist, born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1960)
- Aug 16 Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator, born in Seppälä, Russia (d. 1942)
- Aug 17 Eric Drummond, British politician and diplomat, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33), born in Fulford, England (d. 1951)
- Aug 17 Henri Winkelman, Dutch general, Commander-in-Chief of Dutch Armed Forces during WWII, born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1952)
- Aug 29 Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (auto self-starter), born in Loudenville, Ohio (d. 1958)
- Aug 29 Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (1939-48), born in Haeju, Hwanghae, Korea (d. 1949)
- Sep 1 Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)
- Sep 5 Abdelaziz Thâalbi, Tunisian politician, born in Tunis, Tunisia (d. 1944)
- Sep 5 Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal, born in Landsberg am Lech, Germany (d. 1956)
- Sep 6 John Macleod, Scottish-Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), born in Clunie, Dunkeld, Scotland (d. 1935)
- Sep 6 Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), born in Amsterdam (d. 1940)
- Sep 7 C. J. Dennis, Australian poet (The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke), born in Auburn, South Australia (d. 1938)
- Sep 13 Sherwood Anderson, American author and publisher (Winesburg Ohio), born in Camden, Ohio (d. 1941)
- Sep 15 Frank Gannett, American newspaper publisher (Gannett), born in Rochester, New York (d. 1957)
- Sep 15 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Bengali novelist (Devdas), born in Debanandapur, Hooghly district, Bengal Presidency, India (d. 1938)
- Sep 18 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), born in Belgrade, Serbia (d. 1938)
- Sep 18 James Scullin, Australian Labour Party politician and 9th Prime Minister of Australia, born in Trawalla, Victoria, Australia (d. 1953)
- Sep 22 André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- Sep 26 Edith Abbott, American social worker and educator (University of Chicago Social Sciences), born in Grand Island, Nebraska (d. 1957)
- Oct 4 Hugh McCrae, Australian writer and poet (Satyrs and Sunlight: Sylvarum Libri), born in Melbourne (d. 1958)
- Oct 6 Ernest Lapointe, French-Canadian politician (d. 1941)
- Oct 11 Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer (The Eternal Woman), born in Minden, Westphalia (d. 1971)
- Oct 22 Karl Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother), born in Freudenberg, Bavaria (d. 1966)
- Oct 23 Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970)
- Oct 28 Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist
- Oct 31 Eduard van Oort, Dutch ornithologist (Ornithology of Netherlands), born in Barneveld, Netherlands (d. 1933)
- Nov 3 Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, born in Porto Santo, Madeira Islands, Portugal (d. 1940)
- Nov 4 James Earle Fraser, American sculptor (Indian Head (Buffalo) nickel), born in Winona, Minnesota (d. 1953)
- Nov 5 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire), born in Damville, Eure, France (d. 1918)
- Nov 7 Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician (Gov-D-Cal), born in Fillmore, Utah (d. 1962)
- Nov 8 Frank L. Gillespie, American founder of Supreme Life Insurance Company, born in Osceola, Arkansas (d. 1925)
- Nov 17 Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor (Brussels, Belgium)
- Nov 19 Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist (fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics), born in Kiev, Ukraine (d. 1964)
- Nov 24 Walter Griffin, US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Aust
- Nov 25 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, born in San Anton Palace, Attard, British Malta (d. 1936)
- Nov 26 Bart van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1958)
Willis Carrier
Nov 26 Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), born in Angola, New York (d. 1950)
Willis Carrier
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Aug 23 Sharp Shooter Annie Oakley weds traveling show marksman Frank E. Butler
Annie Oakley
Wedding of Interest
Sep 27 Poet Frederic Mistral (46) weds Marie Louise Aimee Rivière
Frederic Mistral
Deaths in History
Gordon Granger
Jan 10 Gordon Granger, American Major General during the Civil War (Union Army), dies at 54
Gordon Granger
- Jan 15 Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
- Feb 3 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis, literary and Premier of Toscane, dies at 83
- Feb 10 Reverdy Johnson, American politician and jurist (Dred Scott v. Sandford), dies at 79
- Feb 24 Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
- Feb 24 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
- Mar 18 Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet and translator, dies at 65
- Apr 2 Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78
- Apr 3 Henriette Davidis, writer, dies
- Apr 9 Charles Goodyear, American politician (D-NY), dies at 71
- Apr 12 Joseph Dana Webster, American civil engineer and Brevet Major General (Union Army), dies at 64
- May 7 William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795)
- May 8 Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
- May 12 Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros, French poet and writer (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
- May 12 Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
- May 19 Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch statesman and historian, dies at 74
- May 20 Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
- May 20 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
- May 24 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46
- May 26 Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian/MP, dies at 77
- May 27 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
- Jun 1 Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary, dies at 28
- Jun 8 George Sand [Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant], French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71
- Jun 17 Harriet Scott, American ex-slave, who with husband Dred Scott unsuccessfully sued for their freedom
Santa Anna
Jun 21 Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico who dominated Mexican history in the first half of the 19th century, dies at 79
Santa Anna
- Jun 25 Boston Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer, dies at 27
George Armstrong Custer
Jun 25 George Armstrong Custer, United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn aged 36
George Armstrong Custer
- Jun 25 Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn
- Jun 25 Myles Keogh, US officer, dies at Little Bighorn
- Jun 25 Thomas W Custer, brother of George Custer, dies at Little Bighorn
- Jun 27 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, German naturalist and zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
- Jun 27 Harriet Martineau, British controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist, dies at 74
- Jul 1 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary anarchist, dies at 62
- Jul 11 Ottho Gerhard Heldring, Dutch preacher and reformer (Heldring Institutions), dies at 72
- Jul 14 Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder, dies at 60
- Jul 27 Walter Channing, American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth, dies at 90
Wild Bill Hickok
Aug 2 Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's), dies at 39
Wild Bill Hickok
- Aug 10 Edward William Lane, British lexicographer and translator (One Thousand & One Nights), dies at 74
- Aug 19 George Smith, English archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform script), dies of fever at 36
- Aug 21 Harry T. Hays, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 56
- Sep 5 Manuel Blanco Encalada, first president of Chile (b. 1790)
- Sep 9 American Horse, Sioux chief, dies in battle
- Sep 12 Henry A. Wise, American lawyer and politician (33rd Governor of Virginia), dies at 69
- Sep 25 Adolf Glassbrenner, German satirical writer, dies at 66
- Sep 27 Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (b. 1817)
- Oct 1 James Lick, American land baron in California, dies at 80
- Oct 7 Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian, dies at 81
- Oct 10 Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
- Oct 18 Francis Preston Blair, American journalist and newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
- Oct 20 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68
- Nov 6 Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal and assistant secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
- Nov 7 Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
- Nov 8 Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen consort of Spain (1870-73), dies at 29
- Nov 28 Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
- Dec 20 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US