Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann found The Mask of Agamemnon at the Greek site of Mycenae.
The Indian Appropriations Act added the sell or starve clause.
Colorado became the 38th state to join the United States of America.
Jesse James and the famous James-Younger Gang robbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad near Otterville, Missouri, US.
Americans were introduced to bananas.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his 'Swan Lake' ballet.
Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony's Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
The first-ever telephone call was made.
A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky meat shower.
Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone.
