In 1874, the western portion of the present Bronx County, consisting of the then towns of Kingsbridge, West Farms, and Morrisania, was transferred to New York County, and in 1895 the remainder of the present Bronx County, consisting of the Town of Westchester and portions of the towns of Eastchester and Pelham, was transferred to New York County.

It was officially renamed the Town of Fairfax in 1874, and became an independent city in 1961 ( upon which it acquired its current name, the City of Fairfax ).

* Esperanza — 511 Town Hill Road — A country estate, first built in a Greek Revival style in 1835, then expanded in a Colonial revival style between 1874 and 1893

When the railroad was extended to Purcellville in 1874, The Town took Leesburg's place as the beginning of the stage route until the railroad was extended to Round Hill in 1875.

Howard Town Hall in 1874

Westmount was first incorporated as a city in 1874 ( as the Village of Côte St-Antoine, and later the Town of Côte St-Antoine ).

* In The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of " Baltimore Town " and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time published in 1874, John Thomas Scharf cited the 1873 instruction letter to the hospital trustees and a city council resolution thanking Johns Hopkins for his philanthropy.

* The Chronicles of Baltimore: Being a Complete History of " Baltimore Town " and Baltimore City from the Earliest Period to the Present Time published in 1874 by John Thomas Scharf

* History of the Town of Reading, including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading and North Reading with Chronological and Historical Sketches from 1639 to 1874.

Incorporation as a Village followed in 1868 and as a Town in 1874.

The finest legacy of this period are the buildings of the University of Athens ( 1837 ), the Old Royal Palace ( now the Greek Parliament Building ) ( 1843 ), the National Gardens of Athens ( 1840 ), the National Library of Greece ( 1842 ), the Greek National Academy ( 1885 ), the Zappeion Exhibition Hall ( 1878 ), the Old Parliament Building ( 1858 ), the New Royal Palace ( now the Presidential Palace ) ( 1897 ) and the Athens Town Hall ( 1874 ).

The second, the Town of North Melbourne, formerly known as Hotham, had been established on 30 September 1859 and been granted town status on 18 December 1874.

* William Bryant ( footballer born 1874 ), played for Rotherham Town, Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers

In October 1873, the Town of Brighton, in Middlesex County, voted to annex itself to the City of Boston in Suffolk County, and in January 1874 Brighton officially became a neighborhood of the City of Boston.

In 1874, Burroughs bought a farm in West Park, NY ( now part of the Town of Esopus ) where he built his Riverby estate.

The Town of Brighton was annexed by the City of Boston in 1874.

The original Town Hall was constructed in 1839 and described by Wilson in 1874 as " in the Italian style, with a Corinthian portico ; and contains a lock-up, a news room, and a large hall for courts, concerts, balls, and public meetings ".

In 1874, the City of New York annexed three towns that later became the western half of The Bronx, including the Town of Kingsbridge.

* Town of Big Lick ( 1874 – 1882 ) became town and later the independent City of Roanoke ( name change )

Here he became very ill as a result of the unsanitary conditions and died in September 1874 at his brother ’ s home in Cape Town.

File: Rochdale Town Hall, 1874. png | Rochdale Town Hall ( 1874 ) with the original tower

Luling was founded in 1874 as a railroad town and became a rowdy center for the cattle drivers on the Chisholm Trail.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

* 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.

It hung in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.

The first game ever played that resembles the game as it is known today was played between an American team, Harvard, and a Canadian team, McGill University of Montreal in 1874.

Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886.

* Spanish foreign minister Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez ( 1874 ) is writing in three sections, with the first and third being a series of letters, while the middle part is a narration by an unknown observer.

Cantor's work between 1874 and 1884 is the origin of set theory.

The beginning of set theory as a branch of mathematics is often marked by the publication of Cantor's 1874 article, " Über eine Eigenschaft des Inbegriffes aller reellen algebraischen Zahlen " (" On a Property of the Collection of All Real Algebraic Numbers ").

One of the first movements in Mussorgsky's 1874 work Pictures at an Exhibition, named " Gnomus " ( Latin for " The Gnome "), is written to sound as if a gnome is moving about, his movements constantly changing in speed.

Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.

* 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.

* 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.

Neoclassical economics is frequently dated from William Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy ( 1871 ), Carl Menger's Principles of Economics ( 1871 ), and Léon Walras's Elements of Pure Economics ( 1874 – 1877 ).

* 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

* 1874 – General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.

The game's governing body in the United Kingdom is the Hurlingham Polo Association, which drew up the first set of formal British rules in 1874, many of which are still in existence.

Émile Baudot designed a system using a five unit code in 1874 that is still in use today.

* 1874 – The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.

Much of the current popularity is due to the film Quigley Down Under that featured a Sharps Model 1874 rifle.

The inauguration date of the club is officially 19 June 1874, but it only adopted the name " South Melbourne Football Club " four weeks later, on 15 July.

Since New York based Thomas would have known about the wide spread hoax and the contents of the 1876 published book were developed during or right after The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, the hoax event is the most plausible source of the name for the Tom Collins cocktail.

A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.