* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1874 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman ( d. 1949 )

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1874 – Otto Steffen, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

* 1814 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist ( d. 1874 )

* 1946 – Francis Newton, American golfer ( b. 1874 )

* 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )

* 1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian ( d. 1874 )

* Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1874 – 1899 )

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author ( d. 1941 )

* 1874 – Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer ( d. 1938 )

In 1899, Ladislas Deutsch ( Laszlo Detre ) ( 1874 – 1939 ) named the hypothetical substances halfway between bacterial constituents and antibodies " substances immunogenes ou antigenes ".

* 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

* 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( b. 1817 )

* 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist ( b. 1874 )

* 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist ( d. 1952 )

* 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States ( d. 1964 )

* 1908: The term " stem cell " was proposed for scientific use by the Russian histologist Alexander Maksimov ( 1874 – 1928 ) at congress of hematologic society in Berlin.

During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital, from 1870 – 1874, where his father was professor at the Columbia Theological Seminary.

During the local, state, and federal elections of 1874 and 1876 in the former Confederate states, all levels of government chose not to exercise their police powers to maintain law and order.

The county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named for Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general.

The white minority bitterly resented federal authority and the Republican party county government that continued even after the Democratic party gained control of the state government in 1874.

Camp County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas that was founded in 1874.

It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U. S. Senator from Massachusetts ( 1811 – 1874 ), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.

In 1874, the state attorney general investigated, and found not a single resident of the county.

When Grand County was created February 2, 1874 it was carved out of Summit County and contained land to the western and northern borders of the state, which is now in present day Moffat County and Routt County.

On February 6, 1874, the county was enlarged to include part of northern Greenwood County upon Greenwood's dissolution, and originally extended south and east of its present boundaries to reach to the Kansas state line.

In August 1874 the White League forced six white Republicans from office in Coushatta and ordered them to leave the state.

This commitment was reflected in the words of David Jayne Hill of the Class of 1874, and president of the university from 1879 to 1888: " We need in Pennsylvania, in the geographical centre of the state, a University, not in the German but in the American sense, where every branch of non-professional knowledge can be pursued, regardless of distinction of sex.

His success in capitalizing on the vast honey potential of San Diego County, along with his extensive campaign of selling bees to the residents of the county was the major force in making San Diego County the greatest honey producing county in the State of California by 1874, which in turn made California the leading honey producing state of the Union.

In 1874, in response to Native raids in the region, residents and the state militia constructed a stockade.

In one of the more flagrant examples of violence, the White League in August 1874 forced six Republicans from office in Coushatta, then assassinated them before they could leave the state.

The township was briefly renamed Akin Township on June 15, 1874, but once again, the county was informed that another Akin Township existed within the state.

Mexico was the home of Hardin College and Conservatory of Music, a Baptist college established in 1873 for young women, an institution founded and endowed by Charles H. Hardin ( 1820 – 1892 ), governor of the state in 1872 – 1874.

The town was incorporated in 1874 and reorganized under a new state law in 1878 to become a city of the fourth class.

* The Texas oil industrialist and former Oklahoma state legislator Oliver Winfield Killam was born in Elsberry in 1874.

The grant boundaries shown in 1874 maps differ from those of 1850s maps by showing a parcel of ungranted " state land " on the western edge of this grant ( and north of Dix's Grant ), and another " Dartmouth College Grant " to the west of that ( later annexed to the eastern edge of Clarksville ).

The town was once home to the largest brickyard in the state, producing 5 million bricks a year, and to the downtown Spaulding & Frost Cooperage, established in 1874, one of the oldest operating wooden barrel manufacturers in the country.

The town was given a charter by the state legislature on March 14, 1874.

By 1874, they had crossed the Red River and had reached the Texas state line.

Between February 16 and March 19, 1874, trains ran between the Texas state boundary and Red River, where passengers and freight were ferried across to Fulton, to continue by rail to their destinations.

He was a representative and a senator in the state legislature between 1866 and 1874.