In 1887, the British archaeologist Flinders Petrie started excavations at Hawara.

Between 1887 and 1907, Hogarth travelled to excavations in Cyprus, Crete, Egypt, Syria, Melos, and Ephesus ( the Temple of Artemis ).

Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.

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.

He received a medical degree at Würzburg University in 1887.

In Egypt in 1887, W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Fayum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

In 1887, when Dalguise was no longer available, the Potters took their first summer holiday in Lancashire in the Lake District, at Wray Castle near Windermere.

He gave a series of lectures on unit operations at the Manchester Technical School ( University of Manchester today ) in 1887, considered to be one of the earliest such about chemical engineering.

The ship, named Destructor ( literally Destroyer ), was laid down at the end of the year, launched in 1886, and commissioned in 1887.

Husserl himself taught philosophy as a Privatdozent at Halle from 1887, then as professor, first at Göttingen from 1901, then at Freiburg from 1916 until he retired in 1928.

He started where he was in 1887 as a Privatdozent at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

Women's field hockey was first played at British universities and schools, and the first club, Molesey Ladies, was founded in 1887.

They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.

Caricature of Eiffel, published in 1887 at the time of " The Artist's Protest "

In 1887, his remains were moved to the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, in Florence, at the request of the Italian government.

The first real geographical intellect to emerge in United Kingdom geography was Halford John Mackinder, appointed reader at Oxford University in 1887.

Anne Sullivan arrived at Keller's house in March 1887, and immediately began to teach Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with " d-o-l-l " for the doll that she had brought Keller as a present.

However, when several protesters were shot and killed by police in Mitchelstown in 1887, the findings of a common inquest were quashed because the killings had taken place at different times and in different places.

* 1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, wide and thick.

* 1887 – David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.

The Meriden Daily Journal stated that Davis, at a reception held in New Orleans in May 1887, urged southerners to be loyal to the nation.

Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887, at No. 2 Rumannstraße, Hanover, the only child of Edward Schwitters and his wife Henriette ( née Beckemeyer ).

In Egypt in 1887 W. M. F. Petrie found painted sherds of Cretan style at Kahun in the Faiyum, and farther up the Nile, at Tell el-Amarna, chanced on bits of no fewer than 800 Aegean vases in 1889.

The new couple traveled to England, France, Italy, Egypt and Greece from 1886 to 1887.

His subsequent works of the same kind — Uarda ( 1877 ), Homo sum ( 1878 ), Die Schwestern ( 1880 ), Der Kaiser ( 1881 ), of which the scene is laid in Egypt at the time of Hadrian, Serapis ( 1885 ), Die Nilbraut ( 1887 ), and Kleopatra ( 1894 ), were also well received, and did much to make the public familiar with the discoveries of Egyptologists.

Early study of the language, however, was entirely based on the Mitanni letter, found in 1887 at Amarna in Egypt, written by the Hurrian king Tushratta to the pharaoh Amenhotep III.

Holding the post of private secretary to George Goschen, he rose in rank when, in 1887, Goschen became Chancellor of the Exchequer and, two years later, used his influence to have Milner appointed under-secretary of finance in Egypt.

In 1887 she published a second volume of poetry A modern apostle and inherited a considerable fortune from her grandmother which allowed her to travel to Constantinople ( Istanbul ), Palestine, India, and Egypt.

René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz ( 1887 – 1961 ), born René Adolphe Schwaller in Alsace-Lorraine, was a French occultist and student of sacred geometry known for his 15-year study of the art and architecture of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt and his subsequent book The Temple In Man.

Though he died six months after the fall of Khartoum, Abdalla's call was fully echoed by his successor, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad who invaded Ethiopia in 1887, penetrating as far as Gondar, and the remainder of northern Sudan and Egypt in 1889.

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

A considerable number of Jews have held diplomatic posts, among the more prominent being Mordecai M. Noah, consul to Tunis, 1813 – 16 ; Edwin de Leon, consul-general to Egypt, 1854 ; August Belmont, secretary of legation at The Hague, 1853 – 55, and minister resident, 1855 – 58 ; Oscar S. Straus, minister to Turkey, 1887 – 89, 1897 – 1900 ; Solomon Hirsch, minister to Turkey, 1889 – 92 ; B. F. Peixotto, consul to Bucharest, 1870 – 76 ; Simon Wolf, consul-general to Egypt, 1881 ; Max Judd, consul-general to Vienna, 1893 – 97 ; and Lewis Einstein, third secretary of embassy at Paris, 1903, and London, 1905.

In Uruguay, water supply was privately managed from 1867 to 1950 ; in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a brief period from 1887 to 1891 and again from 1993 to 2006 ; in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, from 1867 to 1956 ; in Beirut, Lebanon, from the 19th century until 1951 ; in Shanghai, China, from 1875 to 1949 ; in Casablanca, Morocco, from 1914 to 1962 and then again after 1997 ; in Senegal until 1971 and then again after 1996 ; and in Côte d ' Ivoire from colonial times until today without interruption.

Lillian Hunt Trasher ( 27 September 1887 – 17 December 1961 ) was a Christian missionary to Asyut, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt.

New missions were started in Moldavia ( 1885 ), Pune ( India, 1886 ), El Minya ( Egypt, 1887 ).

In 1887, a plot for an armed rebellion was uncovered.

Venezuela finally broke diplomatic relations with Britain in 1887 and appealed to the United States for help.

Spring-Rice began his career as a clerk in the Foreign Office in 1882, but made the unusual move to the diplomatic service, where he remained for the rest of his life, starting with his first posting to Washington in 1887.

At the time of his death, he had advanced as far as 1816 with his memoirs, which were completed from his correspondence by his family as ( Paris, 5 vols., 1887 – 90 ).

by J Jacobs, 1887, which led to an animated correspondence in the Athenaeum ).

In 1887, a local inhabitant who was delving into sebakh deposits accidentally discovered more than 300 cuneiform tablets that turned out to be Pharaonic records of correspondence.

Darwin edited The Autobiography of Charles Darwin ( 1887 ), and produced some books of letters from the correspondence of Charles Darwin ; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ( 1887 ) and More Letters of Charles Darwin ( 1905 ).