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Vesuvius. (1874) HMS Vesuvius was an experimental torpedo-armed warship of the British Royal Navy. Built by Pembroke Dockyard in 1873–1874, she was the first purpose-designed torpedo vessel built for the Royal Navy. Vesuvius was intended for night attacks against enemy harbours, and was armed with a single tube for Whitehead torpedoes in her bow.
Evangeline, a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, opened at Niblo's Gardens on July 27 and ran for only 16 performances before moving to Boston. Whittington, London production.
The 1874 Canadian federal election was held on January 22, 1874, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 3rd Parliament of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald, who had recently been forced out of office as prime minister, and his Conservatives were defeated by the Liberal Party under their new leader Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie .
Coordinates: 42°23′59″N 72°43′57″W. View of Mill River, Northampton, MA circa 1910. The Mill River is a 13.5-mile-long (21.7 km) [1] tributary of the Connecticut River arising in the western hilltowns of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is notable for dropping in elevation, along with its West Branch, more than 700 feet (210 m ...
The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army expedition in 1874 led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer that set out on July 2, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, which is south of modern day Mandan, North Dakota, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota. Its mission was to look for suitable locations for a fort, find a ...
28. juli - Joaquín Torres García, urugvajski slikar i pisac o umjetnosti
1 January – Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (died 1927) 1 February – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, German poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1929) 19 February – Max Adalbert, German actor (died 1933) 20 March – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (died 1945) 7 April – Friedrich Kayßler, German actor (died 1945)
