1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

In 1887, King Fataaiki wrote to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, requesting that Niue be placed under British protection, but his request was turned down.

By 1887 during the next reign, King Chulalongkorn a permanent military command in the Kalahom Department was established.

In the first of these, on February 8, 1887, Luke Short and Jim Courtright had a shootout on Main Street that left Courtright dead and Short the " King of Fort Worth Gamblers.

* Chabrier's opéra-comique Le roi malgré lui ( 1887 ) deals with the unhappy Polish episode, with Henri as the reluctant King of Poland.

In 1887 they forced the “ Bayonet Constitution ” upon the King.

With that, their mutual friendship and respect blossomed and, though Verdi's projection for an opera based on King Lear never came to anything, Boito provided subtle and resonant libretti for Verdi's last masterpieces, Otello ( 1887 ) and Falstaff ( 1893 ).

The King City post office first opened in 1887.

An American reporter for the Tucson Daily Citizen ( 1887 ) visited the site of his death, and found Cajemé's hat was nailed to a tree, and a wooden cross inscribed with the following: " INRI, aque fallecio General Cajemé, Abril 23, 1887, a los 11 y 5 la manaña " ( INRI for Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews Here died General Cajemé, April 23, 1887 at 11: 05 in the morning ).

While a Tobaccoville post office was established in 1887, the village was not incorporated until 1991 ( as a defense against forced annexation of the area by the nearby city of King ).

* Histoire du peuple d ' Israël – 5 volumes – ( 1887 – 1893 ) History Of The People Of Israel Till The Time Of King David

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was actually knighted on October 24, 1902 by King Edward VII due to his work The War in South Africa: Its causes and conduct, not by Queen Victoria in 1887, as seen in the film.

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

* The impressive town hall was inaugurated by King Leopold II in 1887.

Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( christened Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena ; 24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969 ) was queen consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

His son, the seventh Viscount, represented Nottinghamshire North in the House of Commons as a Conservative and was also an Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V. In 1887 he was created Baron Monckton of Serlby, in the County of Nottingham, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him and his descendants an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

Hiram Cox ( died 1799 )</ ref > was the first British Resident to the King of independent Burma ( October 1796 – July 1797 ), and there were more discontinuous posting to that court, in the 19th century, never satisfactory to either party ; after the British conquest of Burma there were two separate British Residents in a border zone of that country: in the Northern Shan States and in the Southern Shan States ( each several tribal states, usually ruled by a Saopha = Sawbwa ) in 1945 – 1948 ( each group had been under a Superintendent from 1887 / 88 till 1922, then both jointly under a Resident Commissioner till the 1942 Japanese occupation )

* Charles I of Austria, also known as Charles III, King of Bohemia, ( 1887 – 1922 )

NSCAD was founded in 1887 by Anna Leonowens of Anna and the King of Siam fame.

The term dialectical materialism was coined in 1887, by Joseph Dietzgen, a socialist tanner who corresponded with Karl Marx, during and after the failed 1848 German Revolution.

Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto (" Esperanto " translates as " one who hopes "), the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, on July 26, 1887.

Other draftsmen who worked for Silsbee in 1887 included future architects Cecil Corwin, George W. Maher, and George G. Elmslie.

The documents did not excite Woodford and in February 1886 he passed them on to Freemason William Wynn Westcott, who managed to decode them in 1887.

José Victoriano ( Carmelo Carlos ) González-Pérez ( March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927 ), better known as Juan Gris (), was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life.

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

Leonard Bloomfield ( April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949 ) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

Rivalry between two dominant families, the Athireege clan and the Kakaage clan was resolved with former winning the favour of the British authorities in Ceylon, who concluded a Protection Agreement in 1887.

When party leader Sun Yat-Sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek ( 1887 – 1977 ), who was opposed to Mao's involvement.

Tui-toga, who reigned from 1875 to 1887, was the first Christian king.

Tui-toga, who reigned from 1875 to 1887, was the first Christian king of Niue.

The Bürger Brauerei recruited the Bavarian brewer Josef Groll ( 1813 – 1887 ) who, using new techniques and paler malts, presented his first batch of modern pilsner on 5 October 1842.

Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories.

Holmes shares the majority of his professional years with his good friend and chronicler Dr. Watson, who lives with Holmes for some time before his marriage in 1887, and again after his wife's death.

Pulitzer's approach made an impression on William Randolph Hearst, a mining heir who acquired the San Francisco Examiner from his father in 1887.

The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese – English dictionary, published in 1887.

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

Carter Henry Harrison, Sr. ( February 15, 1825October 28, 1893 ) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois from 1879 until 1887 ; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing his term.

In 1887 Bruckner sent the work to Hermann Levi, the conductor who had led his Seventh to great success.

Ramanujan is also the name for Srinivasa Ramanujan ( 1887 – 1920 ), an Indian mathematician who is considered by many to be one of the most intrinsically talented mathematicians in history.

His father was a Baptist minister, who was invited to move to New York City in 1887 to lead a congregation.

He was named after his father, also James Callaghan ( 1887 – 1921 ), who was of Irish descent and was a Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer.

It has many important buildings, foremost among them the Center Building, designed according to the principles of the Kirkbride Plan by Thomas U. Walter ( 1804 – 1887 ), who is better known as the primary architect of the expansion of the U. S. Capitol that was begun in 1851.