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* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.
Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.
* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).
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* Walter Chrysler ( 1875 – 1940 ), businessman, commissioned the Chrysler Building and founded the Chrysler Corporation
Walter Percy Chrysler ( April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940 ) was an American automotive industry executive and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.
Pedestrians had been able to cross the river on the 2 previous Albert Bridges from 1875 – 1893, and from 1895 until the opening of the Walter Taylor Bridge
Sir Brook William Bridge's eldest son Sir Brook William Bridges, 5th Baronet, of Goodneston, had unsuccessfully claimed the barony in 1842, but was instead created Baron FitzWalter, of Woodham Walter in the County of Essex, in 1868 ( for more information on this creation, which became extinct in 1875, see Bridges baronets of Goodneston ).
A new building became a need and this was designed by Walter R Granville and completed in 1875 for the cost of Rs 1, 40, 000.
In Chapter XVII of the novel With Harp and Crown ( 1875 ), Walter Besant mentioned the poem, singling out The hill-side's dew-pearled!
Strickland was born in Valletta, the son of naval officer Commander Walter Strickland, from the ancient English Strickland family of Sizergh, and Maria Aloysia Bonnici, the niece and heiress of Sir Nicholas Sceberras Bologna, fifth Count della Catena in Malta, whom Gerald succeeded in 1875.
* Walter George Brown ( 1875 – 1940 ), Presbyterian minister and Canadian Member of Parliament, 1939 – 1940
Brambles traces its history to 1875, when Walter Bramble began his career in Newcastle, north of Sydney, Australia.
Croquet was very popular there until the then-infant sport of lawn tennis ( a game introduced by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield a year or so prior, and originally called " Sphairistike ") was introduced in 1875, when one lawn was set aside for this purpose.
Walter George Brown ( September 6, 1875 – April 1, 1940 ) was a Presbyterian Church in Canada minister who opposed the formation of the United Church of Canada and was a United Reform Movement MP in the Canadian House of Commons.
Their Boston-area designs include Harvard's Memorial and Weld Halls, the Episcopal Divinity School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Walter Hunnewell house ( 1875 ) at the Hunnewell estate in Wellesley ( then West Needham ), and the Ether Monument at the Boston Public Garden.
Sir Walter Wilson Greg ( 9 July 1875 – 4 March 1959, known professionally as W. W. Greg ) was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century.
However, Walter Long attests that in 1875 " Bullingdon Club matches were also of frequent occurrence, and many a good game was played there with visiting clubs.
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