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.

* 1874 – John McPhee, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania ( d. 1952 )

* Chester ( horse ) ( 1874 – 1888 ), a good Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire

The most famous of his books is For the Term of his Natural Life ( Melbourne, 1874 ), a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement.

* John Davies ( New South Wales politician ) ( 1839 – 1896 ), Australian politician, NSW MLA ( 1874 – 87 ), MLC ( 1888 – 96 )

Originally formed as the South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and one of the oldest football competitions in the world, forming just a few years after the United Hospitals Challenge Cup ( 1874 ), the oldest rugby football competition, and over a decade before The Football League ( soccer ).

He was also, from 1874 to 1896, editor of a religious periodical, The Sunday Magazine, in which he published several of his own hymns, among which is " Now let us see thy beauty, Lord ", which has appeared in several editions of the Methodist Hymn Book, in Congregational Praise and in the Australian Hymnbook, though not in its successor, Sing Alleluia.

It was eventually renamed The Perth Gazette and was published by Arthur Shenton, until 26 June 1874, when it was bought by a syndicate who renamed it The Western Australian Times and increased production to two editions a week.

* Gladstone Porteous, Australian translator of the Bible into the Yi language ( 1874 – 1944 )

* James Bennett ( Australian politician ) ( 1874 – 1951 ), Member of the Australian House of Representatives

* Edward Lloyd Jones ( 1874 – 1934 ), Australian shorthorn cattle breeder

* 150 years of Australian art ( 1938 ), Lionel Lindsay ( Australia, b. 1874, d. 1961 ) ( Author ), Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales ( Australia ), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

After a failed attempt to establish a stable constitutional monarchy under the effective tutelage of the Australian Polynesia Company, the negotiations culminated in a decision to cede the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874, ushering in almost a century of British rule.

* David Hall ( Australian politician ) ( 1874 – 1945 ), Australian politician

* Hermann Homburg ( 1874 – 1964 ), South Australian politician and lawyer

Five years later, on 21 November 2000, Cock broke the Australian longevity record of 112 years 330 days, which was set by Caroline Maud Mockridge ( 11 December 1874 – 6 November 1987 ).

Alfred Gibson ( died 1874 ) was an Australian explorer who died in an 1874 expedition organised by Ernest Giles which sought to cross the deserts of Western Australia from east to west.

An Australian Rules Football club appeared in 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.

* William Robertson ( Australian settler ) ( 1798 – 1874 ), Scottish-born pioneer in Tasmania and Victoria

From 29 July 1872 until 30 June 1874, Alfred Bussell was a nominee Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.

An 1874 newspaper illustration from Harper's Weekly, showing a man engaging in barter: offering chickens in exchange for his yearly newspaper subscription.

Epoch ), a Hebrew language newspaper published in 1862 and 1874 – 1931

* 1874 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer and newspaper publisher, founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française ( d. 1934 )

The town was laid out in 1874 and was named for Charles Dana who was a local railroad stockholder and famous newspaper editor.

In 1874 the “ Vidette ,” a newspaper published by Dr. McDonald began a brief run of only a few months before it folded.

In 1848 he became editor of the newspaper, which was suppressed in 1860, but revived in 1867, when Veuillot resumed his ultramontane propaganda, causing a second suppression of his journal in 1874.

In 1874, in the capacity of a newspaper correspondent, he witnessed the operations of the Carlists in Spain ; he took service with the Turkish army in the war with Russia in 1877 and served under Lord Roberts in the second Afghan War ( 1878 – 1879 ), having narrowly escaped accompanying Sir Louis Cavagnari on his fatal mission to Kabul.

Founded in 1874, the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world

He traveled Europe as a translator, and in 1874, became a main writer for the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun newspaper.

1938 ), and Póvoa Semanário, which appeared during the 1990s, are Póvoa de Varzim's major weekly newspapers ; while the Gazeta da Póvoa de Varzim ( 1870 – 1874 ) was the first local newspaper.

A native Ohioan who first acquired an interest in the Tribune in 1855, Medill gained full control of the newspaper in 1874 and ran it until his death in 1899.

A newspaper story in October 1874 shows that he earned a bit of money helping an off-duty police officer find thieves who had stolen a man ’ s wagon.

At the church, on December 29, 1874, Gray gave the first public demonstration of his invention for transmitting musical tones and transmitted " familiar melodies through telegraph wire " according to a newspaper announcement.

The Avenue Ledru-Rollin is named after the lawyer Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin ( 1807 – 1874 ) who was elected as radical député in 1841 and founded the newspaper La Réforme.

William Franklin " Frank " Knox ( January 1, 1874 – April 28, 1944 ) was an American newspaper editor and publisher.

* NewspaperArchive. com — 1874 – 1981-( newspaper image )

François Coty ( born Joseph Marie François Spoturno ; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, France – 25 July 1934, Louveciennes ) was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française.

Despite this, we find the earliest mention of working bikes in 1874, in Paris, as couriers, for a newspaper and the stock market riding penny-farthings.

At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then an editor of the newspaper Timpul (" The Time ").

Joseph Tracy ( 1793 – 1874 ) was a Protestant Christian minister, newspaper editor, historian and leading figure in the American Colonization Society of the early to mid-19th century.

In 1874, at age 20, Suematsu began working for the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun newspaper ( predecessor to the Mainichi Shinbun ), writing editorials under the pen name Sasanami Hitsuichi ( 笹波篳一 ).

On February 5, 1874 Wang Tao founded Tsun-wan yat-po ( 1874 – 1947, Universal Circulating Herald ), the first Chinese daily newspaper in history.