1875 Canadian Illustrated News cartoon shows Mackenzie the Mason and Governor General Lord Dufferin the Overseer In Canada, Mackenzie continued his career as a stonemason, building many structures that still stand today.

The Republican armies in Spain — which were resisting a Carlist insurrection — pronounced their allegiance to Alfonso in the winter of 1874 – 1875, led by Brigadier General Martínez-Campos.

On May 20, 1875, 17 of 20 countries signed a document known as the Metric Convention or the Treaty of the Meter which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures under the control of an international committee elected by the General Conference on Weights and Measures.

* February 11 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada ( b. 1875 )

* Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Written by Himself ( 1875 ), 2d ed.

Two years later on December 6, 1875, the county's name was shortened to " Clay " by the Arkansas General Assembly ; though some sources say it was renamed for the legendary statesman Henry Clay, others say John M. Clayton remained its official namesake.

Bunting had served as a colonel in the Confederacy during the Civil War before establishing himself in Indianapolis ; General Lew Wallace, who was on the Union side during the War and was a resident of Montgomery County, spoke at the dedication of the cornerstone in 1875.

The General German Workers ' Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV ), founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP ), founded in 1869, merged in 1875, under the name Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD ).

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir ( 26 August 1875 11 February 1940 ) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

Chester County was the last county formed in Tennessee, created by the General Assembly in 1875 from adjacent parts of neighboring Hardeman, Henderson, McNairy, and Madison Counties.

Oconee County was created from the southwestern part of Clarke County in 1875 by the Georgia General Assembly.

On Feb. 25, 1875, the General Assembly incorporated Douglasville.

A lawyer by profession, he served as Attorney General of New Jersey in 1875 and as a justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, from 1880 – 1888.

The LIRR built the original West Deer Park railroad station, which incorporated a post office, in May 1875 at the request of General James J. Casey, a brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant.

Lucius Roy Holbrook ( April 30, 1875 – October 19, 1952 ) was a Major General who commanded of the United States Army's Philippine Department from 1936 to 1938.

Emulating the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Kennedy's civil rights bill included provisions to ban discrimination in public accommodations, and to enable the U. S. Attorney General to join in lawsuits against state governments which operated segregated school systems, among other provisions.

* General Sir William John Codrington, 1875 – 1884

On June 3, 1875, Sheridan married Irene Rucker, a daughter of Army Quartermaster General Daniel H. Rucker.

From 1360 to 1875 a Judge served as the " Lieutenant, Official Principal and Commissary General and Special of the High Court of Admiralty, and President and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty ".

Count ( 1878 ), General from Cavalry ( 1875 ), an honorable member of Academy of Science of Petersburg ( 1880 ).

His father, George Emmanuel Tatischeff, born in 1875 in Paris ( d. 1957 ), was the son of Dmitriy Tatischeff ( Дмитрий Татищев ), General of the Imperial Russian Army and military attaché to the Russian Embassy in Paris.

In 1875, the governor appointed Bingham as Adjutant-General of Missouri, and thereafter he was often referred to as General Bingham.

General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron GCB ( 20 May 1808 – 8 June 1888 ) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ), commanded troops during part of the New Zealand Land Wars and was Governor of the Royal Military College Sandhurst from 1868 to 1875.

* Ulysses S. Grant: President of the United States, signed Enforcement Acts and Civil Rights Act of 1875 ; General of the Army of the United States, supported Radical Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans.

In 1872, less than a decade after he began to practice law, the Connecticut legislature elected him one of a commission of five that made the Revision of 1875, the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut.

* 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist ( d. 1955 )

* May 18 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator ( b. 1875 )

* Mary McLeod Bethune ( 1875 – 1955 ), American educator

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ( July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955 ) was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

From 1846 onwards the establishments in the United Kingdom were gradually reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with ships arriving infected with yellow fever or plague, the powers to deal with cholera ships having been already transferred by the Public Health Act 1875.

In 2007 the auction house brokered a $ 68 million deal that transferred Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic ( 1875 ) from the Jefferson Medical College at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to joint ownership by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

On 1 January 1875, a small area with 22 inhabitants was transferred from the municipality of Arendal to the neighboring municipality of Austre Moland and another small area with 52 residents was transferred to the neighboring municipality of Øyestad.

On 1 January 1875, an unpopulated area of Ålen was transferred to Røros.

On 1 January 1875, a part of Lyngen ( population: 7 ) was transferred to Balsfjord.

Then on 1 January 1875, a small part of Lyngen ( population: 7 ) was transferred to Balsfjord.

Father Smith remained as pastor until October 1875, when at his own request, he was transferred to St. Mary's Hudson, a larger and more important parish.

The first post office opened in 1875, having been transferred from Anderson.

Russian sovereignty was initially confirmed under the terms of the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855, but the island was transferred to the Empire of Japan per the Treaty of Saint Petersburg in 1875.

Calistro died in 1875, and in 1876 the land was transferred by his will to his four children.

In May 1875, Sullivan's The Zoo transferred to the Haymarket.

The school was transferred to the site of the present junior school in 1837 and entrusted to the care of the Marist Brothers in 1875.

In 1875 he was transferred to Russia, which was considered a more prestigious position.

In 1875 his company, Adolph Mosenthal & Co. transferred him to South Africa where he took command of the accounting division in the Port Elizabeth branch.

In February 1875 it was transferred from the ecclesiastical province of St. Louis to that of Milwaukee.

In 1875, Holtz returned to Boppard and was transferred in 1877 to Prüm ( near Koblenz ), in 1889 to Schrimm and in 1902 to Poznań, Poland where he died in 1919.

In 1875 he was appointed governor of Newfoundland and held the post till 1881, when he was transferred to the Leeward Islands.

In 1875, Raaygonj was transferred back to Pabna from Bogra, and in 1879, a separate judgeship for the districts of Pabna and Bogra was created.

In 1875 he was appointed head of the treasury, and in 1880 was transferred to the, department of inland revenue, of which he continued to be president until the time of his death.

In 1875, the Brahmaputra was Made the boundary between Mymensingh and Rangpur and the portion of patiladaha, east of the river, was transferred to this district form Rangpur.

His request was granted and he commenced operations by sinking a shaft near Uirgam ( Oorgaum ) in 1875, but, finding that large capital would be required, in the following year and with the approval of the government, Lavalle transferred all his rights and concessions to Major General G. de la Poer Beresford.

The Eastern Question was, however, the great passion of his life, and in 1875 he succeeded in getting transferred to Belgrade as Agent and Consul-General to Serbia.