* William L. Nelson ( 1875 – 1946 ), U. S. Congressman for Missouri

In early 1875 Olcott was asked by prominent Spiritualists to investigate an accusation of fraud against the mediums Jenny and Nelson Holmes, who had claimed to materialize the famous " spirit control " Katie King ( Doyle 1926: volume 1, 269-277 ).

* Nelson K. Hopkins, New York State Comptroller, 1872 – 1875

They include Countee Cullen ( 1903 – 1946 ), Alice Dunbar Nelson ( 1875 – 1935 ), Gwendolyn Bennett ( 1902 – 1981 ), Langston Hughes ( 1902 – 1967 ), Claude McKay ( 1889 – 1948 ), Jean Toomer ( 1894 – 1967 ) and other African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance.

William Lester Nelson ( August 4, 1875 – December 31, 1946 ) was an American farmer and politician from Columbia, Missouri.

Purchased again by Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1872 and by Goodall, Nelson & Perkins in 1875.

In 1872, Pacific Mail Steamship Company purchased her for coastal services until she was sold to Goodall, Nelson & Perkins in 1875.

The first elections were held on 20 December 1875 in the City of Dunedin and City of Nelson electorates, returning a total of five members.

Cross, the Home Secretary, Disraeli's government introduced various reforms, including the Artisan's and Labourers ' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, the Public Health Act 1875, the Sale of Food and Drugs Act ( 1875 ), and the Education Act ( 1876 ).

His government also introduced a new Factory Act meant to protect workers, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 to allow peaceful picketing, and the Employers and Workmen Act ( 1875 ) to enable workers to sue employers in the civil courts if they broke legal contracts.

In 1875 DuPont introduced Hexagonal powder for large artillery, which was pressed using shaped plates with a small center core ; about 1. 5 inches diameter, like a wagon wheel nut, the center hole widened as the grain burned.

* 1875 – The first official game of Polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British Ranchers.

The idea of reducing the scope and scale of Don Carlos had originally come to Verdi in 1875, partly as a result of his having heard reports of productions, such as Costa's, which had removed Act 1 and the ballet and introduced cuts to other parts of the opera.

One of the gadflies of Aestheticism, W. S. Gilbert, introduced Harlequin and Pierrot as love-struck twin brothers into Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing ( 1875 ), for which Thomas German Reed wrote the music.

One of the earliest parodies of the whodunit genre in general is Englishman E. C. Bentley's ( 1875 – 1956 ) novel Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), which introduced Philip Trent, a detective who gets everything wrong right from the start: assigned to investigate the murder of English millionaire Sigsbee Manderson, who is found shot in the library of his country house, Trent makes his first major mistake when he falls head over heels in love with the main suspect.

His best known works include the trilogy about the long 19th century ( The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 – 1848, The Age of Capital: 1848 – 1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875 – 1914 ), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century and an edited volume which introduced the influential idea of ' invented traditions '.

Hops ( humulus lupulus ) were introduced to the area in about 1820 ; by 1875, Waterville was considered the " Hops Capital of the World.

For example, the eastern oyster was introduced to California waters in 1875, while the Pacific oyster was introduced there in 1929.

* Stephen McCormick, ( 1784 – 1875 ), born in Auburn, noted inventor and manufacturer, introduced cast-iron plow to America.

The first systematic Census of Travancore was taken on May 18, 1875. he also introduced vaccination in the country.

Street pavement was introduced in 1860 and street lighting started in 1875.

Accordingly, on Plimsoll's motion in 1873, a Royal Commission was appointed, and in 1875 a government bill was introduced, which Plimsoll, though regarding it as inadequate, resolved to accept.

A new krone was introduced as the currency of Denmark in January 1875.

On the death of the Tongzhi Emperor in 1875, he introduced a large armed force into the capital and effected a coup d ' etat which placed the Guangxu Emperor on the throne under the tutelage of the two dowager empresses.

From 1871 to 1875 the Pulpit Law ( Kanzelparagraph ) introduced a series of sanctions against Catholicism in Prussia.

He was a co-author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was introduced in 1870, and enacted a year after his death.

There in 1875 he was introduced to a young revolutionary intellectual named Pavel Axelrod, who later recalled that Plekhanov instantly made a favorable impression upon him:

However, the Lord Chancellor could not muster the necessary support in the Parliament for the bill as originally proposed in 1874 or when it was reintroduced in 1875.

In 1875, the manager of the Royalty Theatre, Richard D ' Oyly Carte, needed a short piece to fill out a bill with Offenbach's La Périchole.

The new Conservative Government, led by Benjamin Disraeli, passed a bill to postpone the coming-into-force of the bill until 1875.

In the 19th century there were several attempts to eliminate Churchill County because of its small population, but Assemblyman Lemuel Allen was able to stop it on all occasions including convincing the Governor to veto the bill after it had been passed by both houses in 1875.

It was not until 8 April 1875, that a bill was finally passed providing for the creation of a Supreme Court of Canada.

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.

After the union of Germany as one empire in 1871, the Reichstag adopted a bill initiated by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as the " Civil Marriage Law " in 1875 ; since then, only civil marriages have been recognised in Germany.

In 1875, Crawford appeared on the 50 cent bill.

In 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant " pocket vetoed " a Federal bill to protect the dwindling bison herds, and in 1875 General Philip Sheridan pleaded to a joint session of Congress to slaughter the herds, to deprive the Plains Indians of their source of food.

The hint to the fox-hunting houses of parliament that a ban could lead to further restrictions helped, and though Cobbe's bill reached the House of Lords on 4 May 1875 a week before the scientist's bill reached the House of Commons, the Home Secretary announced a Royal Commission of inquiry to resolve the arguments, with Huxley co-opted on to the Commission.

On April 8, 1875 the bill creating the court was passed and the court was inaugurated on November 18.

He tabled the bill creating the City of Hull in 1875.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 1875 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist ( d. 1967 )

* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist ( d. 1959 )

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

* 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter ( d. 1957 )

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* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* Télesphore Fournier – September 30, 1875

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875

* Sir Samuel Henry Strong – September 30, 1875

* Jean-Thomas Taschereau – September 30, 1875

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1875 – Artur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil ( d. 1955 )

* 1875 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer ( d. 1912 )

* 1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer ( d. 1936 )

* Albert I of Belgium ( 1875 – 1934 ), third King of the Belgians

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

* 1875 – William Eccles, English physicist ( d. 1966 )

* 1875 – Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter and sculptor ( d. 1946 )

* Alfons Karpiński ( 1875 – 1961 ), Polish painter

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )