James Clerk Maxwell and Elihu Thomson ( through the British Association for the Advancement of Science-BAAS ) introduced the Centimetre gram second system of units ( cgs ) in 1874, in order to derive electric and magnetic metric units, following the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1832.

During the local, state, and federal elections of 1874 and 1876 in the former Confederate states, all levels of government chose not to exercise their police powers to maintain law and order.

The 1874 Ordnance Survey map of the area shows the following factories, in order, from the site of the as yet unbuilt Wandsworth Bridge to Battersea Park: Starch manufacturer ; Silk manufacturer ; ( St. John's College ); ( St. Mary's Church ); Malt house ; Corn mill ; Oil and grease works ( Prices Candles ); Chemical works ; Plumbago Crucible works ( later the Morgan Crucible Company ); Chemical works ; Saltpetre works ; Foundry.

In 1874 they enthusiastically followed church counsel and established a united order.

In 1874 he returned to the Prussian parliament in order to support the government in its conflict with the Clericals, and after 1878 with the Socialists.

The Assembly having ( 9 November 1873 ) fixed his term of office at seven years, he declared in a speech delivered 4 February 1874 that he would know how to make the legally established order of things respected for seven years.

In order to correct this problem the Chassepot was replaced in 1874 by the Gras rifle which used a centerfire drawn brass metallic cartridge.

He employed Pierre Mahé, a leading Paris stamp dealer, as a consultant or curator to examine and keep order in his collection from 1874 until Mahé died in 1913.

A new order — Slopalinida Patterson 1985 — was proposed to include the members of the families Proteromonadidae Grassé 1952 and Opalinidae Claus 1874.

The Japanese government established a European-style civil police system in 1874, under the centralized control of the Police Bureau within the Home Ministry, to put down internal disturbances and maintain order during the Meiji Restoration.

In 1874 the Society for Culture and Education ( Kansanvalistusseura ) was founded in order to provide opportunities for artistic expression, beginning with the Jyväskylä festival in 1881.

Also inducted into the civil class of the order in 1874.

In 1874 the sixty-odd towns that formed the erstwhile exempt jurisdictions of Gerri, Mur, Montodó-Bonrepòs, the order of Saint John of Jerusalem and Meià were annexed to the diocese.

Ding Fubao ( 丁福保, 1874 – 1952 ) collected all available Shuowen materials, clipped and arranged them in the original dictionary order, and photolithographically printed a colossal edition.

Thus in 1857 he went to Peru in order to determine the magnetic equator ; in 1861 – 1862 and 1864, he studied telluric absorption in the solar spectrum in Italy and Switzerland ; in 1867 he carried out optical and magnetic experiments at the Azores ; he successfully observed both transits of Venus, that of 1874 in Japan, that of 1882 at Oran in Algeria ; and he took part in a long series of solar eclipse-expeditions, e. g. to Trani ( 1867 ), Guntur ( 1868 ), Algiers ( 1870 ), Siam ( 1875 ), the Caroline Islands ( 1883 ), and to Alcosebre in Spain ( 1905 ).

Without doubt, the chaos incited by the cantonal revolt and the worsening of the Carlist War led them to reopen the Cortes on 2 January 1874, in order to bring to a vote the management and ask for unlimited powers with which to save the Republic from complete discredit.

In 1871 the first order for silver coinage was for Canada, and in 1874 the first gold was struck-Burgersponds for the new South African Republic – 837 pieces.

Having been criticized for the poor relief effort during the Orissa famine of 1866, the British began to discuss famine policy, and in 1868 Muir issued an order stating that: In 1874 Muir was appointed financial member of the Viceroy's Council, and retired in 1876, when he became a member of the Council of India in London.

Batemans was founded in 1874 by George Bateman, a local farmer who sold his farm in nearby Friskney in order to rent a brewery in Wainfleet, situated by the railway.

In the autumn of 1872 he joined the Collegium Canisianum maintained by the Jesuits ; however, his application to join the order was denied in 1874.

In 1874 it was discovered that another man named Ianto Parker, not Dic Penderyn, had stabbed Donald Black and then fled to America fearing capture by the authorities, and also that rebuttal witness James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, admitted that he had lied under oath, under the orders of Lord Melbourne, in order to secure a conviction.

The town was the centre of cattle rustling and gun-running and order was only restored in 1874 by the Cape Mounted Riflemen.

When Disraeli resigned office in 1868 Lowry-Corry declined various offers of public employment in order to be free to continue his services, now given gratuitously, to the Conservative leader ; and when the latter returned to power in 1874, Corry resumed his position as official private secretary to the prime minister.

In 1874, the order was reorganized, membership being limited to persons directly interested in the farmers ' cause ( there had been a millionaire manufacturers Grange on Broadway ), and after this there were constant quarrels in the order ; moreover, in 1875, the National Grange largely lost control of the state Granges, which discredited the organization by their disastrous co-operation ventures.

In the 1870s, mainly between 1872 and 1874, Canadian broad-gauge lines were changed to standard gauge to facilitate interchange and the exchange of rolling stock with American railroads.

The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union, founded in 1874, and the Prohibition Party were major players until the early 20th century, when the movement was taken over by the Anti-Saloon League.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

(; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951 ) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

The United Order movement was a program of economic and moral reform that began in 1874 under Brigham Young.

Nevertheless, Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto greatly influenced Tchaikovsky's piano concertos, especially the first ( 1874 — 5 ), and the superb finale, with its introduction and scintillating principal subject, is the basis of very similar material at the beginning of the finale of Balakirev's Piano Concerto in E-flat major [...] The first movement of Balakirev's concerto had been written, partially under the influence of Rubinstein's Second Concerto, in the 1860s.

His 1874 publication People from the Other World began with his early articles concerning the Spiritualist movement.

Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 ) initiated the modern movement for the defense of cultural objects, for the idea of “ Peace of Civilizations ”.

He was put forward as a Republican candidate for the Minnesota Senate in 1874, running against banker Francis Bennett Van Hoesen, who was aligned with the Grange movement and state Anti-Monopoly Party.

Nicholas Roerich ( 1874 – 1947 ) was the founder of a movement to protect cultural artifacts, whose symbol, a maroon on white emblem consisting of three solid circles in a surrounding circle, has been used as a peace banner.

The movement found particular success at the 1874 elections in Wisconsin, California, Iowa and Kansas.

Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur ( 1874 – 1922 ) also plunged into this movement and defied the caste system, championed the cause of the untouchables and promoted education in his state.

The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of a " national " or " pastoral " school of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 – 1951 ), George Butterworth ( 1885 – 1916 ), Gustav Holst ( 1874 – 1934 ) and Frederick Delius ( 1862 – 1934 ).

* 1874 – First issue of The Nation, founded by members of the Canada First movement to help in creating a Canadian nationality.

* William Henry Gist ( 1807 – 1874 ), 68th Governor of South Carolina from 1858 to 1860 and a leader of the secession movement in South Carolina

An 1874 history of the movement writes:

Disputing his views, the moralist and individualist Petr Lavrov made a call " to the people ," which hundreds of idealists heeded in 1873 and 1874 by leaving their schools for the countryside to try to generate a mass movement among the narod.

He was a Roman Catholic and supported the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and was vaguely sympathetic to the Home Rule movement, but this could not prevent his defeat by a Home Rule candidate in the 1874 General Election.

A growing independence movement in Iceland led to Denmark granting it home rule in 1874 and expanding that home rule in 1904.

In 1874 he headed to Vermont to meet with the brothers and decide for himself whether they were charlatans or a validation of that period's Spiritualist movement.

Francis Willoughby Tancred ( 21 February 1874 – 25 November 1925 ) was an English poet associated with the Poets ' Club, a group of writers, established by T. E. Hulme, who were the forerunners of the Imagist movement.

Having studied to become a teacher, Zetkin developed connections with the women's movement and the labour movement in Germany from 1874.

The Pai Mārire movement was a syncretic Māori religion or cult that flourished in New Zealand from about 1863 to 1874.