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Events from the year1875 in the United States.

• President:Ulysses S. Grant (R-Illinois)
• Vice President:

Henry Wilson (R-Massachusetts) (until November 22)

vacant (starting November 22)

• Chief Justice:Morrison Waite (Ohio)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

James G. Blaine (R-Maine) (until March 4)

Michael C. Kerr (D-Indiana) (starting December 6)

• Congress:43rd (until March 4),44th (starting March 4)

• January 25 – Anti-Slavery Society forms inNew York.
• February 25 – The majority of theYavapai (Wipukyipai) andTonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes are forced by the U.S. Cavalry under command of Brigadier GeneralGeorge Crook to walk at gunpoint from theArizona'sVerde Valley to theSan Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.
• February 27 –Newton Booth, 11thGovernor of California, resigns, having been electedSenator.Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaRomualdo Pacheco becomes the 12th Governor. He is later replaced by elected governorWilliam Irwin.
• March 1 – TheUnited States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in public accommodations and jury duty.
• March 3
  • President Grant authorizes issue of atwenty-cent piece (abolished 3 years later).
  • ThePage Act of 1875 is enacted.^[1] Passed amid risingnativistic andanti-Chinese sentiment, the Act restricts the immigration of Chinese women to the U.S.^[2]
• March 15 –Roman Catholic Archbishop of New YorkJohn McCloskey is named the firstcardinal in the U.S.
• April – 'Albert's swarm' ofRocky Mountain locusts begins to devastate thewestern United States.^[3]
• April 10 –Law Telegraph Company is founded.^[4]

• April 25 – Ten sophomores fromRutgers College (modern-day Rutgers University) steal a one-ton cannon from the campus of theCollege of New Jersey (modern-day Princeton University) and start theRutgers–Princeton Cannon War.
• May 17 –Aristides wins the firstKentucky Derby.
• June – The record-settingclipperFlying Cloud of1851 is burned for scrap metal.
• June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game ofCollege Football:^[5]Tufts University andHarvard University at Jarvis Field inCambridge, Massachusetts
• July 2 – The trial, begun on January 4, forcriminal conversation brought against popular preacherHenry Ward Beecher byTheodore Tilton for alleged adultery with his wife, suffragistElizabeth Richards Tilton, in Brooklyn ends with ahung jury.^[6]
• July 24 – The Mohican Base Ball Club is established inKennett Square, Pennsylvania.
• August 9 –Joe Borden throws a 4 hit shoutout against future baseball hall of famerPud Galvin and theSt. Louis Brown Stockings 16-0
• September 1 – A murder conviction begins to break the power of the violentIrish-American anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires".
• October 16 –Brigham Young University is founded inProvo, Utah. This year alsoWasatch Academy is founded by Duncan McMillan inMount Pleasant, Utah.
• October 25 – The first performance of thePiano Concerto No. 1 byPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given inBoston, Massachusetts withHans von Bülow as soloist.
• October 30 – TheTheosophical Society is founded in New York byHelena Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others.
• November 9 –Indian Wars: InWashington, D.C., Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds ofSioux andCheyenne associated withSitting Bull andCrazy Horse are hostile to the United States (theBattle of the Little Bighorn is fought inMontana the next year).
• November 22 – Vice PresidentHenry Wilson dies of a stroke.
• December 4 – NotoriousNew York City politicianBoss Tweed escapes from prison and flees toCuba, then toSpain.
• December 9 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's oldest active gun club", is formed.

• TheTong Wars begin inSan Francisco.
• Conoco established as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company.

• Reconstruction era (1865–1877)
• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
• Depression of 1873–79 (1873–1879)

• January 5 –J. Stuart Blackton, film producer (died 1941)
• January 7 –Thomas Hicks, runner (died 1952)
• January 9 –Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and socialite (died 1942)
• January 15 –Thomas Burke, sprinter (died 1929)
• January 17 –William Robinson Brown, businessman and horse breeder (died 1955)
• January 22 –D. W. Griffith, film director (The Birth of a Nation) (died 1948)
• January 31 –Horace B. Carpenter, film actor and screenwriter (died 1945)
• March 9 –Evelyn Sears, tennis player (died 1966)
• March 25 –Spencer Charters, actor (died 1943)
• March 28 –Helen Westley, actress (died 1942)
• April 2 –Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (died 1940)
• April 4 –Samuel S. Hinds, film actor (died 1948)
• April 9 –Jacques Futrelle, fiction writer (died insinking of the RMSTitanic 1912)
• April 15 –James J. Jeffries, heavyweight boxer (died 1953)
• May –Paul Sarebresole, ragtime composer (died 1911)
• May 4 –John J. Blaine, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1927 to 1933 (died 1934)
• May 6 –William D. Leahy, admiral (died 1959)
• May 11 –Harriet Quimby, pilot (killed in aviation accident 1912)
• May 23 –Alfred P. Sloan, automobile industrialist (died 1966)
• June 6 –J. Farrell MacDonald, character actor and film director (died 1952)
• June 25 –William V. Mong, film actor, screenwriter and director (died 1940)
• June 26 –Camille Zeckwer, composer (died 1924)
• July 1 –Joseph Weil, con man (died 1976)
• July 2 –Hubert D. Stephens, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1923 to 1935 (died 1946)
• July 10 –Mary McLeod Bethune, African American educator (died 1955)
• July 15 –Francis Pierlot, American actor (died 1955)
• July 19 –Alice Dunbar Nelson, African American poet, journalist and political activist of theHarlem Renaissance (died 1935)
• August 11 –Raymond E. Willis, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1941 to 1947 (died 1956)
• August 27 –Katharine McCormick, suffragist (died 1967)
• September 1 –Edgar Rice Burroughs, popular novelist (d. 1950)
• September 9 –Delphia Welford, Supercentenarians (Died 1992)
• September 16 –James Cash Penney, businessman, founder ofJ. C. Penney (died 1971)
• September 17 –John H. Overton, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1933 to 1948 (died 1948)
• October 23 –Gilbert N. Lewis, chemist, first to isolatedeuterium (died 1946)
• October 25 –Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, author and educator (died1961)^[7]
• October 29 –Alva B. Adams, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1923 to 1924 and from 1933 to 1941 (died 1941)
• November 6 –Richard L. Murphy, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1933 to 1936 (died 1936)
• November 11 –John Jenkins, auto racer (died 1945)
• November 13 –Jimmy Swinnerton, cartoonist and artist (died 1974)
• November 19 –Hiram Bingham III, explorer of South America and U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1924 to 1933 (died 1956)
• November 30 –Myron Grimshaw, baseball player (died 1936)
• December 19 –Carter G. Woodson, historian, author, teacher, creator of 'Black History Month' (died 1950)
• Percy MacKaye, dramatist and poet (died 1956)

• January 18 –William Henry Aspinwall, financier (born1807)
• January 22 –Charles Sprague, banker and poet (born1791)
• February 5 –William Alfred Buckingham,U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1869 to 1875 (born1804)
• February 7 –Edmund Spangler, carpenter and stagehand employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of theassassination of Abraham Lincoln (born1825)
• May 17 –John C. Breckinridge, 14thvice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (born1821)
• May 20 –Jesse D. Bright, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1845 to 1862 (born1812)
• July 8 –Francis Preston Blair Jr., U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1871 to 1873 (born 1821)
• July 10 –Henry L. Benning, Confederate general, lawyer, and judge (born 1814)
• July 25 –Celia M. Burleigh, women's rights activist and Unitarian pastor (born1826)
• July 29 –Paschal Beverly Randolph, occultist (born 1825)
• July 30 –George Pickett, Confederate General (born 1825)
• July 31 –Andrew Johnson, 17thpresident of the United States from 1865 to 1869, 16th vice president of the United States from March to April 1865 (born1808)
• August 11 –William Alexander Graham, U.S. Senator fromNorth Carolina from 1840 to 1843,Confederate States Senator from 1864 to 1865, 30thGovernor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 andU.S. Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852 (born1804)
• August 17 –John B. Weller, U.S. Senator from California from 1852 to 1857 (born 1812)
• October 15 –Lone Horn, Native American Chief (born1790)
• November 21 –Orris S. Ferry, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1867 to 1875 (born1823)
• November 22 –Henry Wilson, 18th vice president of the U.S. from 1873 to 1875 (born 1812)
• November 24 –William Backhouse Astor, Sr., businessman (born1792)
• December 13 –Théonie Rivière Mignot, restaurateur (born1819)
• December 27 –William Alexander Richardson, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1863 to 1865 (born1811)

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