The relationship with Godwin cooled in 1874 amid his preoccupation with his architectural practice and financial difficulties, and Terry returned to her acting career, separating from Godwin in 1875.

* Dame Ellen Terry, actress 1847 – 1928, who lived in Harpenden from 1868 to 1874.

He was born March 7, 1874 in Crockettsville, Breathitt County, Kentucky, to his father Isaac Terry.

Godwin was widowed in 1865 ; his affair with the renowned actress Ellen Terry between 1868 and 1874, incurred her retirement with him to Hertfordshire, and produced two children: Edith Craig and Edward Gordon Craig ( 1872 – 1966 ), who became an important actor, designer, director, and theoretical writer of the early 20th century European stage.

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.

It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard ’ s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill.

In 1874, Gilbert wrote a short libretto on commission from producer – conductor Carl Rosa, whose wife would have played the leading role, but her death in childbirth cancelled the project.

The 1874 version has been seldom played and success came only after major revisions in 1878, including a completely new scherzo and finale, and again in 1880 – 1, once again with a completely rewritten finale.

Recorded instances of baseball played outside North America came in 1874, when a party comprising members of the Boston and Philadelphia clubs toured England both playing cricket and demonstrating baseball.

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

In 1874 Bird proposed a new chess variant, which played on an 8 × 10 board and contained two new pieces: guard ( combining the moves of the rook and knight ) and equerry ( combining the bishop and knight ).

In 1874 when Disraeli formed an administration Salisbury returned as Secretary of State for India and in 1878 was appointed Foreign Secretary and played a leading part in the Congress of Berlin, despite doubts over Disraeli's pro-Ottoman policy.

From May 1865 to July 1874, General Howard was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau ( the Army's Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands ), where he played a major role in the Reconstruction era, and had charge of integrating freedman ( freed slaves ) into American society.

The club was founded in 1874 and played as a senior league side until 1929. Notable early results include the 4 – 2 defeat of Celtic in the 1897 Scottish Cup.

After being re-elected into the Reichstag in 1874, Liebknecht played a key role in the merger of the SDAP and Lassalle's ADAV into the SAPD ( Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, " Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany ") in Gotha in 1875.

– Charles Clegg who played in the first international game against Scotland in 1872, John Owen in 1874 and John Hudson in 1883.

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

The team previously played at Aston Park from 1874 to 1876 and Perry Barr from 1876 to 1897.

Deslandres ' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career.

His team, Club Habana, defeated Club Matanzas, 51 to 9 on December 27, 1874, in the first organized baseball game ever played in Cuba.

He also played cricket for Nottinghamshire and is credited with inventing football shin pads in 1874.

The first recorded instance of rugby being played in Japan was in 1874, when British sailors staged a game in Yokohama.

He later played a major role in the development of the Adventist educational structure beginning in 1874 with the formation of Battle Creek College ( which is now Andrews University ).

He first played first-class cricket in 1870-71, and came to prominence by scoring 81 and 32 not out against Victoria in 1874.

1874, and inter-club matches were played between them and Teddington.

Nukulau played a role in the ceding of Fiji to the British Crown in 1874.

* V. Walfrid Ekman ( 1874 – 1954 ), oceanographer ( Ekman spiral, Ekman number ).

Later, as a result of these emerging conventions a number of international conferences were held, starting with the Brussels Conference of 1874, with nations agreeing that it was necessary to prevent inhumane treatment of prisoners and the use of weapons causing unnecessary harm.

Among the composer's other works are a number of songs, including three song cycles: The Nursery ( 1872 ), Sunless ( 1874 ) and Songs and Dances of Death ( 1877 ); plus Mephistopheles ' Song of the Flea and many others.

The bewildering number and variety of phonetic values that signs could have in Sumerian led to an unfortunate detour in understanding the language – a Paris-based orientalist, Joseph Halévy, argued from 1874 onward that Sumerian was not a natural language, but rather a secret code ( a cryptolect ), and for over a decade the leading Assyriologists battled over this issue.

It was granted on August 3, 1874 as Canadian patent number 3, 738.

Soon other villages were incorporated into it and in 1874 the number of inhabitants of the village rose to over 2, 800.

A number of branch lines were opened in the 1870s, including Bourne to Sleaford in 1870, Wood Green to Enfield in 1871, Finchley to High Barnet in 1872, Highgate to Alexandra Palace and Wainfleet to Skegness in 1873, Ossett to Dewsbury in 1874, Bradford to Shipley and Sedgebrook to Barkston in 1875, Newark to Bottesford and the Pudsey Greenside branch in 1878, and finally the Queensbury to Ovenden line in 1879, which completed a new route from Bradford to Halifax.

Before 1874, when Massachusetts passed the nation's first legislation limiting the number of hours women and child factory workers could perform to 10 hours a day, virtually no labor legislation existed in the country.

Between 1861 and 1874, a number of other banks including the Bank of New Zealand, Bank of New South Wales, National Bank of New Zealand and Colonial Bank of New Zealand were created by Acts of Parliament and authorised to issue bank notes backed by gold, however these notes were not legal tender.

His French experiences resulted in a number of books, most important of which is his Life of Napoleon III ( 1874 ).

In 1874, following the death of her father, Vikelas ' wife Kalliope began to suffer from mental problems and showed a number of suicidal tendencies.

He then trained under a number of distinguised Paris physicians including René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec ( 1781 – 1826 ), Baron Guillaume Dupuytren ( 1777 – 1835 ), François Magendie ( 1783 – 1855 ), and Léon-Jean-Baptiste Cruveilhier ( 1791 – 1874 ).

In November 1874 a number of skirmishes were fought between the native villagers and Irish ' navvies '.

* July 11, 1874, He was granted the Russian patent, as patent number 1619.

Polenov was the pensioner of academy of arts in Italy and France, where he painted a number of pictures in the spirit of Academism on subjects taken from the European history, such as " Droit de Signeur " ( 1874 ) Tretyakov gallery ; at the same time he worked a lot in the open air.

In the middle of 1870s he created a number of paintings in which the landscape motif was designed for concrete social associations in the spirit of Peredvizhniki ( Forgotten village, 1874 ; Chumatski path, 1875 ; both – in Tretyakov gallery ).

In 1874, Congress for the first time appropriated funds to publish the volumes of the court's opinions ; from that time the report was known as the United States Reports and numbering began as if the first volume by the first reporter, Alexander J. Dallas, was number one.

In number theory, Mertens ' theorems are three 1874 results related to the density of prime numbers proved by Franz Mertens

In 1874 Spence was one of a number of militant mine-workers who formed the Amalgamated Miners ' Association of Victoria, and he became the union's general secretary in 1882.

Chiefly of interest to genealogists, James Stuart ( 1791 – 1874 ), a local farmer at Lynchork ( pronounced " Linnahork ") appears in a number of birth, baptism, death and Kirk Session records in this and surrounding parishes as the admitted or reputed father of children of his female servants.

On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the settlement of Iceland in 1874 the library received many gifts and in 1883 Jón Árnason estimated the total number of volumes in the library at 20, 000.

Initially having a patriotic impetus, and counting a number of leading literary figures among its supporters ( G. K. Chesterton, Humbert Wolfe, L. A. G. Strong and the novelists H. E. Bates and A. G. Street 1892 – 1966 ) as members, it shortly became a vehicle for Sydney Fowler Wright ( 1874 – 1965 ), now remembered mainly for his genre fiction.

From 1874 the Underwood family made typewriter ribbon and carbon paper, and were among a number of firms who produced these goods for Remington.

The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922.