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

In 1874, it was extended by the British physicists James Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson with a set of electromagnetic units.

* 1874 William H. Neilson

William Bagley ( 1874 – 1946 ) was an important historical essentialist.

Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, an 1874 painting by John William Waterhouse

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

* 1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer ( d. 1953 )

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 ).

In 1874, a book by William Stanley Jevons described the relationship of one-way functions to cryptography, and went on to discuss specifically the factorization problem used to create the trapdoor function in the RSA system.

William Stubbs focused on these constitutional aspects of Stephen's reign in his 1874 volume the Constitutional History of England, beginning an enduring interest in Stephen and his reign.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

* Granatstein, J. L .. " King, ( William Lyon ) Mackenzie ( 1874 – 1950 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed, Jan 2011 accessed 12 Sept 2011

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.

Archaeological investigations were undertaken from 1859 to 1874 by William Boyd Dawkins, who moved to Somerset to study classics with the vicar of Wookey.

Their eldest son William Gilbert junior ( 1874 – 1905 ) was born on 6 July.

* February 23 – William Jardine, Scottish naturalist ( d. 1874 )

* September 13 William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor ( d. 1874 )

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

Born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.

In 1874, Disraeli's ambitious foreign policy, aimed at creating a British empire, is voted down by the House of Commons after a speech by his great rival, William Gladstone.

The interior fan vaulting ceiling, originally installed by Robert and William Vertue, was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott between 1864 and 1874.

* William Lyon Mackenzie King ( 1874 – 1950 ), Prime Minister of Canada

Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, by John William Waterhouse, 1874.

For example, William Somerset Maugham's ( 1874 – 1966 ) novella Up at the Villa ( 1941 ) could very well be classified as crime fiction.

* William Alexander Smith ( politician ) ( 1828 – 1888 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1873 – 1874 )

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

It opened in 1874.

On July 3, 1874 Switzerland's first zoo ( the Zoo Basel ) opened its doors in the south of the city towards Binningen.

Finally, on the corner between Potsdamer Straße and the Potsdamer Bahnhof, stood Bierhaus Siechen, built by Johann Emil Schaudt ( 1874 – 1957 ), opened in 1910 and later relaunched under the new name Pschorr-Haus.

" On September 15, 1874, the school opened its doors to female students.

In 1874, Zacharia Gevorkian opened Yerevan's first printing house and in 1879 the first theatre, sited near the church of St. Peter and Paul, was established.

The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, housed in a Victorian Gothic building and opened in 1874, presents artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.

A second station, later called Shepton Mallet ( Charlton Road ), opened in 1874 with the building of the Bath extension of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

The Athens Lunatic Asylum, later called the Athens State Hospital, opened in 1874.

In 1870, the church of St Paul ’ s ( built by E. Buckton Lamb ) was opened and then rededicated in 1874 to St Mary Magdalene.

Liverpool Street station was opened on 2 February 1874 by Great Eastern Railway on the site of the original Bethlem Royal Hospital, the world's oldest psychiatric hospital which was also widely known as ' Bedlam '.

In 1763, the community of Daphne was established and was known simply as “ the Village .” The town of Daphne was officially established, although unincorporated, in April 1874 when the Post Office for Daphne was opened.

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.

degree in 1873 after only a few months of intense effort, he accepted a faculty position in chemistry at the newly opened Purdue University in 1874.

In 1874, Reverend Elijah Buttram opened a school at Buttram ’ s Chapel outside town, with Professor John Rains Roberts as principal.

The Chualar post office opened in 1871, closed in 1873, and re-opened in 1874.

Boulder Creek served as the upper terminus of the San Lorenzo Valley Logging Flume terminating in Felton, which began construction in 1874 and when formally opened in October of 1875 was augmented by a new rail line to transport logs to the wharf in Santa Cruz.

In 1874 the Cincinnati Southern Railway obtained a right-of-way from Temple Burgin and opened Burgin Station.

The post office first opened on June 19, 1874.

A post office named " Spurr Mountain " opened December 30, 1874 and was discontinued December 15, 1887.

The Boyne Falls post office first opened September 5, 1874.

A post office named " Redan " opened in the northeastern part of Saginaw County on May 15, 1872 and was closed February 6, 1874.

Casey had purchased the Nathanial Conklin estate in 1874 and he wanted a rail depot and post office located closer than the LIRR Deer Park depot that had opened in 1853.

It was opened in 1874 as a teaching laboratory.