In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.

In October 1887 the first torpedo division was created at Wilhelmshaven and the second torpedo division based at Kiel.

After the Volta Associates gave several demonstrations in the City of Washington, businessmen from Philadelphia created the American Graphophone Company on March 28, 1887, in order to produce and sell the machines for the budding phonograph marketplace.

The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2 which had several modifications, and in 1887, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year.

The commune of Dakar was created by the French colonial administration on June 17, 1887 by detaching it from the commune of Gorée.

In the United States, containerization and other advances in shipping were impeded by the Interstate Commerce Commission ( ICC ), which was created in 1887 to keep railroads from using monopolist pricing and rate discrimination but fell victim to regulatory capture.

* Hatch Act of 1887, United States federal legislation that created agricultural experiment stations

Citrus County was created in 1887.

The neighborhood now known as the Castro was created in 1887 when the Market Street Railway Company built a line linking Eureka Valley to downtown.

DeSoto County was created in 1887.

Lake County was created in 1887 from portions of Sumter County and Orange County.

Lee County was created in 1887 from Monroe County.

Osceola County was created in 1887.

On May 12, 1887, Osceola was named a county, having been created from both Orange and Brevard Counties.

Pasco County was created on June 2, 1887, from the southern third of Hernando County.

In 1887, van Gogh painted Mand met viooltjes, and, in 1926, Georgia O ' Keeffe created a painting of a black pansy called simply, Pansy and followed it with White Pansy in 1927.

Heppner was designated the temporary county seat at the time the county was created and narrowly defeated Lexington in the election held in 1887 to determine the permanent county seat.

Malheur County was created February 17, 1887, from the southern portion of Baker County.

The county was created by the 1887 territorial legislature and named for Gilbert Ashville Pierce, governor of Dakota Territory from 1884 to 1886 and a representative of North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1889 to 1891.

In 1887, Lee County was created out of part of Monroe County, including Chokoloskee, but the county seat was in Fort Myers, almost in the opposite direction from Key West.

Culbertson was created in June 1887 following the arrival of the Great Northern Railway, then known as the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway.

Jamesburg was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1887, when it was created from portions of Monroe Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 15, 1887.

Dorothea Lynde Dix ( April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887 ) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.

That started to change in 1887, when professors William J. Beal and Rolla C. Carpenter created Collegeville, along what is now Harrison Road and Center and Beal Streets, north of Michigan Avenue.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

* 1887 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect that will play a very important role in the development of the quantum theory with Einstein's explanation of this effect in terms of quanta of light.

As for Desdemona, too many top-class lyric sopranos to list here have undertaken the role since 1887.

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

Johnston Forbes-Robertson played Leontes memorably in 1887, and Herbert Beerbohm Tree took on the role in 1906.

The war ended when Wan Ahmad was proclaimed the new sultan in 1887, but his role from that point onward was largely ceremonial, as the British forced him to sign a treaty bringing the country under control of a British Resident.

Bare played his most substantial role in shaping the architectural character of the town through co-founding the Roaring Spring Planing Mill in 1887.

It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role.

Bernardo Alberto Houssay ( April 10, 1887 – September 21, 1971 ) was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, received one half Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar ( glucose ) in animals.

General Courtney Hicks Hodges ( January 5, 1887 – January 16, 1966 ) was an American military officer, most prominent for his role in World War II, in which he commanded the First United States Army in Northwest Europe.

On 5 February 1887, he cemented his place in musical history by creating the role of Otello in Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece of the same name.

Richardson designed many important single-family residences, but his famous John J. Glessner House ( Chicago, 1885 – 1887 ) is his best and most influential urban house, and the Mary Fisk Stoughton House ( Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1882 – 1883 ) and Henry Potter House ( St. Louis, 1886 – 1887, demolished 1958 ) play that role for suburban and country settings.

Elihu Benjamin Washburne ( September 23, 1816, Livermore, Maine – October 23, 1887, Chicago, Illinois ) was a member of a Maine political family that played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party.

* Desdemona ( Otello ), a soprano role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello ( 1887 )

Hisamitsu ( 1817 – 1887 ), regent of Tadayoshi, was the daimyō of Satsuma han at the time of the Boshin War and the Meiji Restoration, in which Satsuma played a major role.

Wolff then assumed the role of British high commissioner in Egypt from 1885 to 1887.

He served in this role again at the beginning of Salisbury's second ministry ( 1886 – 1887 ), but was soon promoted to Colonial Secretary ( in January 1887 ).

She became internationally famous for her performance in the title role in Dorothy by Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson ( 1887 ), which ran for a record-setting 931 performances ( becoming a hit after Tempest took over the title role from Marion Hood ).

Stanley Cursiter ( 1887 – 1976 ) was a Scottish artist who played an important role in introducing Post-Impressionism and Futurism to Scotland.

The role of Iago is reduced to some degree, and it is much less diabolical than in the original or in Verdi's Otello of 1887.

The premiere of the Ur-version ( 1887 ) of Šárka took place on 26 November 2010 at the Reduta Studio Theatre Brno as part of the Janáček Biennale, conducted from the piano by Ondrej Olos, with Lucie Kašparová in the title role.

Alexander's brother Compars Herrmann ( January 23, 1816-June 8, 1887 ) left medical school at an early age to pursue a career as a magician and served as a role model and inspiration for Alexander.