* July 1 – The cable-operated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in Manhattan becomes the first elevated railway in the United States.

The first successful cable-operated street railway was the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which opened on August 2, 1873.

In 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

Peasant parties first appeared across Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1910, when commercialized agriculture and world market forces disrupted traditional rural society, and the railway and growing literacy facilitated the work of roving organizers.

* 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

In Belgium an extensive system of tram-like local railways called vicinal or buurtspoor lines crossed the country in the first half of the 20th century, and had a greater route length than the main-line railway system.

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.

Croatian Railways ' plan to build their first high-speed railway service is progressing.

Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.

* 1913 – The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

Outside the scope of media, railway enthusiasts are another early fandom with its roots in the late 19th century that began to gain in popularity and increasingly organize in the first decades of the early 20th century.

After a few months working as an unpaid assistant to his brother-in-law, who managed a foundry, Eiffel approached the railway engineer Charles Nepveu, who gave Eiffel his first paid job as his private secretary.

However, shortly afterwards Nepveu's company went bankrupt, but Nepveu found Eiffel a job with the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l ' Ouest, for whom Eiffel produced his first bridge design, a sheet iron bridge for the Saint Germaine railway.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

From the start, he relied heavily on employing students: the very first ensemble he founded was a student collegium musicum that had some 40 members.

* 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

" The ancient Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) was the first person to write of the magnetic needle compass and that it improved the accuracy of navigation by employing the astronomical concept of true north ( Dream Pool Essays, AD 1088 ), and by the 12th century the Chinese were known to use the lodestone compass for navigation.

Castagno's was the first study to define a theatrical form as Mannerist, employing the vocabulary of Mannerism and maniera to discuss the typification, exaggerated, and effetto meraviglioso of the comici dell ' arte.

The Mantua court of the Gonzagas, employers of Monteverdi, played a significant role in the origin of opera employing not only court singers of the concerto delle donne ( till 1598 ), but also one of the first actual " opera singers "; Madama Europa.

The late Max Hunter, while employing hydrogen fuel in the DC / X, often said that he thought the first successful orbital SSTO would more likely be fueled by propane.

On January 19, 1883, the first standardized incandescent electric lighting system employing overhead wires began service in Roselle, New Jersey.

He was one of the first to use linear perspective in his painting, employing techniques such as vanishing point in art for the first time.

Ancient commentators noted that Virgil seems to divide the Aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of Homer ; the first six books were viewed as employing the Odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the Iliad.

* January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey ( it was built by Thomas Edison ).

He had signed the contract in July 1835 to present Belisario in Venice, for what would be the first visit to that city since 1819, but it was not until October that the subject was finally agreed upon, and there followed discussions with impressario Natale Fabbrici about employing a Venetian librettist, Pietro Beltrame.

By the first century BC, the " classic " villa took many architectural forms, with many examples employing atrium or peristyle, for enclosed spaces open to light and air.

In nuclear strategy, a first strike is a preemptive surprise attack employing overwhelming force.

A year later, Holst first heard Schoenberg ’ s Five Pieces for Orchestra, an " ultra-modern " set of five movements employing " extreme chromaticism " ( the consistent use of all 12 musical notes ).

Some jurisdictions separate the ' driver ' and ' attendant ' functions, employing ambulance driving staff with no medical qualification ( or just a first aid certificate ), whose job is to drive the ambulance.

Duhalde took care of the most critical matters and called for democratic elections, where Néstor Kirchner of the Justicialist Party was chosen ( for the first time employing the ballotage system ).

In 919 AD, the siphon projector-pump was used to spread the ' fierce fire oil ' that could not be doused with water, as recorded by Lin Yu in his Wu Yue Bei Shi, hence the first credible Chinese reference to the flamethrower employing the chemical solution of Greek fire.

In the 1530s, he wrote poetry in the Devonshire MS declaring his love for a woman ; employing the basic acrostic formula, the first letter of each line spells out SHELTUN.

During the American Civil War, Jonathan Letterman devised a system of mobile field hospitals employing the first uses of the principles of triage.

Champollion announced his general decipherment of the system of Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time, employing the Rosetta Stone as his primary aid.

Once in royal hands, the château became a favourite of French kings, from Louis XI to Francis I. Charles VIII decided to rebuild it extensively, beginning in 1492 at first in the French late Gothic Flamboyant style and then after 1495 employing two Italian mason-builders, Domenico da Cortona and Fra Giocondo, who provided at Amboise some of the first Renaissance decorative motifs seen in French architecture.