During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

" Furthermore, in 1874 Carte did not yet have the resources to make his idea into reality, and after his season at the Opera Comique, he terminated his lease.

Meanwhile, Sullivan's popular 1867 opera, Cox and Box, had been revived at the Gaiety Theatre in 1874, and Carte had already asked him to write a piece for the Royalty.

The Criterion Theatre opened on Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1874, and in 1881, two more houses appeared: the Savoy Theatre in The Strand, built by Richard D ' Oyly Carte specifically to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, opened on 10 October ( the first theatre to be lit by cooler, cleaner electric lights ), and five days later the Comedy Theatre opened as the Royal Comedy Theatre on Panton Street in Leicester Square.

Cox and Box quickly became a Victorian staple, with additional productions in Manchester in 1869 and on tour in 1871 ( conducted by Richard D ' Oyly Carte, with the composer's brother Fred playing Cox ), at London's Alhambra Theatre in 1871, with Fred as Cox, and at the Gaiety Theatre in 1872, 1873, and 1874 ( the last of these again starring Fred as Cox and Cecil as Box ), and Manchester again in 1874 ( paired with The Contrabandista ).

Parepa died in January 1874, however, and the project was dropped ( until, in 1875, a competing manager, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, produced Trial by Jury with music by Arthur Sullivan ).

The library was sold off in 1872 and the building sold or leased in 1874 to the Wellington Club, which occupied it until 1886.

The W & N leased the N & R in 1874, and the two companies merged into the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad in 1883.

The Lowell and Andover Railroad was organized in 1873, after the Boston and Lowell Railroad's monopoly on Boston-Lowell service ended, and the line opened in 1874 from the B & M at Lowell Junction in Andover west to Lowell, immediately being leased to the B & M.

In Hampshire the railway leased the existing Hayling Island Branch Line from 1874.

The club leased the estate from Naylor in 1869 and in 1874 acquired the land outright for £ 27, 500.

By 1874 the new incumbent at St Paul's, the Rev Brittan, had joined the Cricket Club as a player, but had also leased some of the land to Mr Jackson, another club member, for stock grazing.

In 1874 Albert Sanford leased the island from Sir George Grey before buying it.

In 1873 the N & L leased it ; the road opened in 1874.

Demesne lands that were leased out for a term of years remained demesne lands, though no longer in the occupation of the lord of the manor ( see, for example, Musgrave v Inclosure Commissioners ( 1874 ) LR 9 QB 162, a case in which the three judges of the Queen's Bench Divisional Court and everyone else concerned assumed without argument that farms which were let by the lord of the manor were part of the lord ’ s demesne land ).

Later, on 1 January 1859, both the NWR and the MH & R were leased to the MR, and on 30 July 1874 the NWR was absorbed by the MR.

The Old Colony Railroad acquired the Middleborough and Taunton Railroad in 1874 and the South Shore Railroad in 1877, which it had once leased until 1854.

The Pawtuxet Valley Railroad was organized in 1872 and opened and leased to the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad in 1874, running from the main line at River Point to Hope.

In 1874 the Fitchburg Railroad leased the rest of the V & M, extending its line west to Greenfield ( and beyond via the Troy and Greenfield Railroad-see below ).

The Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad, running south from Winchendon, leased the Monadnock in 1874, but transferred the lease to the Cheshire Railroad in 1880 to keep it out of the hands of the Boston and Albany.

The BB & G leased the Monadnock Railroad in 1874, but reassigned the lease to the Cheshire in 1880.

In 1874, the company established its own book printing and manufacturing office, set up by John Putnam and operating initially out of newly leased premises at 182 Fifth Avenue.

From 1874 to 1876, the carding mill was leased to R. W.

It was only built north of Danbury, and on May 1, 1874 the Housatonic leased and opened it.

The Pawtuxet Valley Railroad opened in 1874 as a leased branch of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad from River Point northwest to Hope.

* Germany: 20 April 1874, Berlin State Opera, with Mathilde Mallinger as Aida, Albert Niemann as Radamès, and Franz Betz as Amonasro

* Austria: 29 April 1874, Vienna State Opera, with Amalie Materna as Amneris

In 2004, a book was published, authored by Paul Fryer and Olga Usova, titled Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera ’ s Greatest Beauty, 1874 – 1944.

In November 1874, Carl Rosa Opera made its first of many visits to Scotland with a two week season at Glasgow's Prince of Wales Theatre.

In 1874, an Australian newspaper wrote: " We in Australia did not take kindly to W. G .. For so big a man, he is surprisingly tenacious on very small points.

Lastly, the work of Célestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, géographique et biographique de Maine-et-Loire ( 3 vols., Paris and Angers, 1874 – 1878 ), and its small volume of Préliminaires ( including a summary of the history of Anjou ), contain, in addition to the biographies of the chief counts of Anjou, a mass of information concerning everything connected with Angevin history.

* Paskwüw ( Paskwa, Pisqua, usually called Pasquah-‘ The Plain ’; French: Les Prairies ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born 1828, son of the famous chief Mahkaysis, 1874 his tribal group were making their living with bison hunting in the vicinity of today's Leech Lake, Saskatchewan, they had also created gardens and raised a small herd of cattle, in September 1874 Pasqua took part in the negotiations on the Treaty 4 in Qu ' Appelle Valley, he asked the Canadian government for the payment of £ 300, 000 to the tribes, which the Hudson's Bay Company had received for the sale of Rupert's land to Canada, despite the refusal of Canada he finally signed the treaty and moved to a reserve five miles west of Fort Qu ' Appelle, stayed out with his tribal group from the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, died in March 1889 he succumbed to the tuberculosis )

* Thomas J. Watson ( 1874 – 1956 ), transformed a small manufacturer of adding machines into IBM

Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1874.

Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the Right Bank near the Champs-Élysées, by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic necropolis of Paris.

When the new cathedral of St Stephen was opened in 1874 the small Pugin church became a school room, and later church offices and storage room.

In 1874 water rights were established on nearby Willow Creek and the first grain harvested but settlement was sparse consisting of only a couple of families and small irrigation ditches.

In 1874, a small quantity of silver coin was found at Weymouth Point.

* Alembic is a small, most historical locale, near the center of the township at A rural post office operated from June 23, 1874, until December 31, 1905.

It was not until 1874 that Wachapreague began as a small town.

In 1874, the family moved to the small town of Jerilderie in the Riverina region of New South Wales, where his father ran a store.

It was a small shop and in 1874 he moved to larger premises in Broad Street.

The constitution of 1848 granted the cantons far more autonomy than later revisions after 1874 would ever allow again, and the department ’ s defined scope of responsibility was very small in comparison to what it would become later.

In 1874 Bebel took a partner and founded a small button factory, for which he acted as salesman, but in 1889 he gave up his business to devote himself wholly to politics.

The concert cimbalom developed by József Schunda in 1874 in Budapest, Hungary was closer in its range of pitch, dynamic projection and weight to the proportions of a small piano than the various folk hammered dulcimers had been.

* Outlaws of the Sierra Nevadas, a western dealing with a confrontation between a gang of bandits and a small town in 1874 California.

This small amount of construction was one of the largest projects the company would undertake in the years between 1874 and 1880.

On November 10, 1874, Keely gave a demonstration of an " etheric generator " to a small group of people in Philadelphia.

Meredith was born in 1874 in Black Park, Chirk, a small mining town in North Wales, just south of Wrexham.

In 1872, the death of his mother spurred a change in Hannington's life ; he was awarded his B. A., and on 1 March 1874 was ordained as a deacon, and took charge of the small parish of Trentishoe in Devon.

The territory was occupied by the British Empire in 1874 and, shortly before the death of its founder and only leader, Adam Kok III, the small country was incorporated into the neighbouring Cape Colony.

The first school was located in a small rented building used from 1868 until a permanent structure was erected in 1874.