Year (''' MDCCCLXXV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday
"Calendar in year 1875 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
Julian-1875
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
In the ISO 8601 Calendar , 1875 is defined as the year the Convention Du Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year.
- October 15 - Chief Lone Horn of the Minneconjou dies at the Cheyenne River , leaving his son Big Foot as the new chief.
- October 16 - Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah .
- October 30 - The Theosophical Society is founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky , H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others.
- , Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle Of The Little Bighorn was fought in Montana the next year).
- November 16 - Battle at Gundet - Ethiopia n Emperor Yohannes defeats another Egypt ian army
- December 4 - Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba , then to Spain .
- December 9 - Massachusetts Rifle Association , "America's Oldest Active Gun Club" is formed.
- December 25 - Edinburgh Derby , First Hearts vs Hibs Derby, Hearts win 1-0.
- January 5 - James Stuart Blackton , American film producer (d. 1941 )
- January 7 - Thomas J. Hicks , American runner (d. 1963 )
- January 9 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American sculptor and socialite (d. 1942 )
- January 11 - Reinhold Glière , Russian composer (d. 1956 )
- January 14 - Albert Schweitzer , Alsatian physician, philosopher, and musician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1965 )
- January 15 - Tom Burke , American runner (d. 1929 )
- January 22 - D. W. Griffith , American film director (d. 1948 )
- January 27 ? - Elizabeth Israel , notable for the disputed claim of having lived 128 years (d. 2003 )
- February 2 - Fritz Kreisler , Austrian violinist (d. 1962 )
- February 4 - Ludwig Prandtl , German physicist (d. 1953 )
- February 21 - Jeanne Calment , French woman, notable for living 122 years (d. 1997 )
- March 4 - Mihály Károlyi , former Prime Minister Of Hungary and President Of Hungary (d. 1955 )
- March 7 - Maurice Ravel , French composer (d. 1937 )
- March 26 - Syngman Rhee , President Of South Korea (d. 1965 )
- March 30 - Jonathan Campbell , American film pioneer (d. 1942 )
- April 1 - Edgar Wallace , English writer (d. 1932 )
- April 2 - Walter Chrysler , American automobile pioneer (d. 1940 )
- April 4 - Samuel S. Hinds , American actor (d. 1948 )
- April 4 - Pierre Monteux , French conductor (d. 1964 )
- April 5 - Mistinguett , French singer (d. 1956 )
- April 8 - King Albert I Of Belgium (d. 1934 )
- April 15 - James J. Jeffries , American boxer (d. 1953 )
- April 18 - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt , Abdruschin, author (d. 1941 )
- May 11 - Harriet Quimby , American pilot (d. 1912 )
- May 12 - Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya , Indian philosopher (d. 1949 )
- May 23 - Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. , Automobile Industrialist (d. 1966 )
- June 6 - Thomas Mann , German writer, Nobe Prize laureate (d. 1955 )
- June 12 - Sam De Grasse , Canadian actor (d. 1953 )
- June 24 - Diedrich Westermann , German linguist (d. 1956 )
- June 28 - Henri Lebesgue , French mathematician (d. 1941 )
- July 26 - Carl Jung , Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1961 )
- July 26 - Antonio Machado , Spanish poet (d. 1939 )
- August 15 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor , English composer (d. 1912 )
- August 16 - Juho Sunila , Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1936 )
- August 21 - Winnifred Eaton , Canadian author (d. 1954 )
- August 27 - Katharine McCormick , American suffragist (d. 1967 )
- September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs , American author (d. 1950 )
- September 3 - Ferdinand Porsche , Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951 )
- September 18 - Tomas Burgos ,Chilean philanthropist (d. 1945 )
- September 18 - Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond , British water-colourist (d. 1970 )
- October 1 - Eugeen Van Mieghem , Belgian painter (d. 1930 )
- October 12 - Aleister Crowley , British occultist (d. 1947 )
- October 23 - Gilbert N. Lewis , American chemist (d. 1946 )
- October 31 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel , Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (d. 1950 )
- November 1 - Charles Frederic "Freddy" Ingalls , Younger brother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. August 27 , 1876 )
- December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke , Austrian poet (d. 1926 )
- December 5 - Arthur Currie , Canadian military leader (d. 1933 )
- December 19 - Mileva Maric , Albert Einstein's first wife (d. 1948 )
- December 25 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer , Austrian Catholic cardinal (d. 1955 )
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- July 30 - George Pickett , American Confederate General (b. 1825 )
- July 31 - Andrew Johnson , 17th President Of The United States (b. 1808 )
- August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen , Danish writer (b. 1805 )
- August 10 - Karl Andree , German geographer (b. 1808 )
- August 12 - János Kardos , Hungarian Slovenes evangelic priest, teacher and writer (b. 1801 )
- August 17 - Wilhelm Bleek , German linguist (b. 1827 )
- September 22 - Charles Bianconi , Italian-Irish entrepreneur (b. 1786 )
- October 10 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian writer (b. 1817 )
- October 15 - Chief Lone Horn , Native American Chief (b. 1790 )
- October 12 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , French sculptor and painter (b. 1827 )
- October 24 - Jacques Paul Migne , French priest, theologian, and publisher (b. 1800 )
- November 7 - Werner Munzinger , Swiss adventurer (b. 1832 )
- November 22 - Henry Wilson , Vice President Of The United States (b. 1812 )
- November 24 - William Backhouse Astor, Sr. , American businessman (b. 1792 )
: ''See also .''
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