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1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1887th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 887th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1887, the Gregorian calendar is 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which is currently in localized use.
Events
[edit]January–March
[edit]- January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
- January 20
- The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.[1]
- British emigrant ship Kapunda sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors.[2]
- January 21
- The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States.
- Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 in) (a record for any Australian capital city).
- January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians.
- January 28
- In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
- Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.[3]
- February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.[4]
- February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, passed by the 49th United States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.[5]
- February 5 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala, Milan.
- February 8 – The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is enacted in the United States.[6]
- February 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean.
- 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 3: Helen Keller and Sullivan. - March 7 – North Carolina State University is established, as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
- March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs in the United States.
April–June
[edit]- April 1 – The final of the first All-Ireland Hurling Championship is held.[7]
- April 4 – Argonia, Kansas, elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.[8]
- April 10 (Easter Sunday) – The Catholic University of America is founded in Washington, D.C.
- April 20 – Occidental College is founded in Los Angeles, California.
- April 21 – Schnaebele incident: A French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two countries.[9]
- May 3 – An earthquake hits Sonora, Mexico.
- May 5 – Ricardo Palma founds the Peruvian Academy of Language.[10]
- May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
- May 25 – The Hells Canyon massacre begins: 34 Chinese gold miners are ambushed and murdered in Hells Canyon, Oregon, United States.[11]
- June 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a U.S. 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.[12]
- Zululand becomes a British colony.
- June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.[13]
- June 28 – Minot, North Dakota, is incorporated as a city.
- June 29 – The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane, Australia.
July–September
[edit]- July – James Blyth operates the first working wind turbine at Marykirk, Scotland.[14]
- July 1 – Construction of the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
- July 6 – King Kalākaua of Hawai'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, as well as disenfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.
- July 12 – Odense Boldklub, the Danish football team, is founded as the Odense Cricket Club.
- July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first U.S. patent for his comptometer.[15]
- July 26
- L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Unua Libro" (Dr. Esperanto's International Language), the first description of Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language.
- Blackpool F.C. is created in England, U.K.
- August – The earliest constituent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is established at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
- ^ United States Naval Institute (1930). Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute. The Institute. p. 406.
- ^ "The Loss of the Kapunda: Details of the Disaster". Belfast Morning News. 23 February 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 2016-03-18.
- ^ Gaston Tissandier (1889). The Eiffel Tower: A Description of the Monument, Its Construction, Its Machinery, Its Object, and Its Utility. With an Autographic Letter of M. Gustave Eiffel. Illustrated. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. p. 27.
- ^ Dana Facaros; Michael Pauls (1982). New York & the Mid-Atlantic States. Regnery Gateway. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-89526-856-3.
- ^ Serial set (no.0-3099). 1891. p. 47.
- ^ Sister Mary Antonio Johnston (1948). Federal Relations with the Great Sioux Indians of South Dakota,1887-1933, with Particular Reference to Land Policy Under the Dawes Act. Catholic University of America Press. p. 41.
- ^ Mike Cronin; William Murphy; Paul Rouse (2009). The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009. Irish Academic Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-7165-3028-2.
- ^ Lewis Ford (1892). The Variety Book Containing Life Sketches and Reminiscences. Washington Press. p. 106.
- ^ Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1931). Bismarck & Mussolini. Houghton Mifflin. p. 97-101.
- ^ Batalla, Carlos (5 May 2016). "5 de mayo: ¿Qué pasó un día como hoy?". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ Oregon Historical Society (2006). Oregon Historical Quarterly. Oregon Historical Society. p. 326.
- ^ Royal.gov.uk Archived November 1, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Parks Canada - This Week in History". March 18, 2004. Archived from the original on March 18, 2004.
- ^ Price, Trevor J. (2004). "Blyth, James (1839–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/100957. Retrieved 2014-04-16. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ U.S. Patent No. 366,945, filed July 6, 1886; second patent granted October 11, 1887: U.S. Patent No. 371,496, filed March 12, 1887.