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Conservative. The 1874 United Kingdom general election saw the incumbent Liberals, led by William Gladstone, lose decisively, even though their party won a majority of the votes cast. [1] Benjamin Disraeli 's Conservatives won the majority of seats in the House of Commons, largely because they won a number of uncontested seats.
The 1874 transit of Venus, which took place on 9 December 1874 (01:49 to 06:26 UTC), [1] [n 1] was the first of the pair of transits of Venus that took place in the 19th century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous pair of transits had taken place in 1761 and 1769, and the next pair would not take place ...
February – Anthony Trollope 's satirical novel The Way We Live Now (set in 1872, written in 1873) begins publication in monthly shilling parts in London, as one of the last major Victorian novels published in that format. It is completed and appears in two volumes in 1875.
History of Spain. Spain in the 19th century was a country in turmoil. Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive "liberation war" ensued. Following the Spanish Constitution of 1812, Spain was divided between the 1812 constitution's liberal principles and the absolutism personified by the rule of Ferdinand VII, who repealed ...
8 January – Arthur Macalister becomes Premier of Queensland for the third time. 10 March – Ernest Giles is the first European to explore and later names (12 March) the Petermann Ranges. 1 April – John Forrest leads an expedition from Geraldton, Western Australia across the Gibson Desert to the Peake telegraph station in South Australia.
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 .
William Carpenter (1797 at St James, Westminster, London, England – April 21, 1874, at Islington, London) was a 19th-century theological and political writer, journalist, and editor. [1]
