Editing 1887 (section)

== Events ==

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Louis Pasteur]]'s anti-[[rabies]] treatment is defended in the [[Académie Nationale de Médecine]], by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
* [[January 20]]
** The [[United States Senate]] allows the [[United States Navy]] to lease [[Pearl Harbor]] as a naval base.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States Naval Institute|title=Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AejNAAAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=The Institute|page=406}}</ref>
** British emigrant ship ''[[Kapunda (ship)|Kapunda]]'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Loss of the Kapunda: Details of the Disaster|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4659986/the_loss_of_the_kapunda_details_of_the/|accessdate=2016-03-18|work=[[Belfast Morning News]]|date=23 February 1887|page=5}}</ref>
* [[January 21]]
** The [[Amateur Athletic Union]] (AAU) is formed in the United States.
** [[Brisbane]] receives a one-day rainfall of {{convert|465|mm|in}} (a record for any Australian capital city).
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dogali]]: [[Ethiopia|Abyssinian]] troops defeat the Italians.
* [[January 28]] 
** In a snowstorm at [[Fort Keogh]], [[Montana]], the largest [[snowflake]]s on record are reported. They are {{convert|15|in|cm}} wide and {{convert|8|in|cm}} thick.
** Construction work begins on the foundations of the [[Eiffel Tower]] in Paris, France.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gaston Tissandier|title=The Eiffel Tower: A Description of the Monument, Its Construction, Its Machinery, Its Object, and Its Utility. With an Autographic Letter of M. Gustave Eiffel. Illustrated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfRBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27|year=1889|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington|pages=27}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; The first [[Groundhog Day]] is observed in [[Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Dana Facaros|author2=Michael Pauls|title=New York & the Mid-Atlantic States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pb4M4g9BnOUC|year=1982|publisher=Regnery Gateway|isbn=978-0-89526-856-3|page=171}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; The [[Interstate Commerce Act of 1887]], passed by the [[49th United States Congress]], is signed into law by President [[Grover Cleveland]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Serial set (no.0-3099)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IA3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA47|year=1891|pages=47}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; The [[Giuseppe Verdi]] opera ''[[Otello]]'' premieres at [[La Scala]], Milan.
* [[February 8]] &ndash; The [[Dawes Act]], or the General Allotment Act, is enacted in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sister Mary Antonio Johnston|title=Federal Relations with the Great Sioux Indians of South Dakota,1887-1933, with Particular Reference to Land Policy Under the Dawes Act|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bg_VAAAAMAAJ|year=1948|publisher=Catholic University of America Press|page=41}}</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; The [[French Riviera]] is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean.
* [[February 26]] &ndash; At the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]], [[George Lohmann]] becomes the first [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] to take eight wickets, in a [[Test cricket|Test]] innings.
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Anne Sullivan]] begins teaching [[Helen Keller]].[[File:Helenkellerannesullivan1898.jpg|thumb|125px|right| [[March 3]]: [[Helen Keller]] and [[Anne Sullivan|Sullivan]].]]
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[North Carolina State University]] is established, as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Chester Greenwood]] patents [[earmuffs]] in the United States.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; The final of the first [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship|All-Ireland Hurling Championship]] is held.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mike Cronin|author2=William Murphy|author3=Paul Rouse|title=The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNsnAQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Irish Academic Press|isbn=978-0-7165-3028-2|page=266}}</ref>
* [[April 4]] &ndash; [[Argonia, Kansas]], elects [[Susanna M. Salter]] as the first female mayor in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lewis Ford|title=The Variety Book Containing Life Sketches and Reminiscences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zk594-zLwkUC&pg=PA106|year=1892|publisher=Washington Press|pages=106}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] (Easter Sunday) &ndash; The [[Catholic University of America]] is founded in Washington, D.C.
* [[April 20]] &ndash; [[Occidental College]] is founded in [[Los Angeles, California]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; [[Schnaebele incident]]: A French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two countries.<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Hitchcock Sherrill|title=Bismarck & Mussolini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fadCAAAAIAAJ|year=1931|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|page=97-101}}</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; An [[1887 Sonora earthquake|earthquake]] hits [[Sonora]], Mexico.
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Ricardo Palma]] founds the [[Peruvian Academy of Language]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elcomercio.pe/luces/libros/5-mayo-paso-dia-hoy-194798-noticia/|title=5 de mayo: ¿Qué pasó un día como hoy?|newspaper=El Comercio|first=Carlos|last=Batalla|date=5 May 2016|access-date=15 June 2023|language=Spanish}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] &ndash; The cornerstone of the new [[Stanford University]], in northern [[California]], is laid (the college opens in [[1891]]).
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The [[Hells Canyon massacre]] begins: 34 Chinese gold miners are ambushed and murdered in [[Hells Canyon]], [[Oregon]], United States.<ref>{{cite book|author=Oregon Historical Society|title=Oregon Historical Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7boPGAK4QAC|year=2006|publisher=Oregon Historical Society|page=326}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Herman Hollerith]] receives a U.S. [[patent]] for his [[punched card]] [[calculator]].
* [[June 18]] &ndash; The [[Reinsurance Treaty]] is closed between Germany and Russia.
* [[June 21]] 
**The [[British Empire]] celebrates [[Queen Victoria]]'s [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria|Golden Jubilee]], marking the 50th year of her reign.<ref>[http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page929.asp Royal.gov.uk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051101004551/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page929.asp |date=November 1, 2005 }}</ref>
**[[Zulu Kingdom|Zululand]] becomes a British colony.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; The [[Rocky Mountains Park Act]] becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first [[national park]], [[Banff National Park]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25|title=Parks Canada - This Week in History|date=March 18, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040318112228/http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25|archive-date=March 18, 2004}}</ref>
[[File:Moraine Lake 17092005.jpg|thumb|110px|right| [[June 23]]:  Banff National Park]]
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Minot, North Dakota]], is incorporated as a city.
* [[June 29]] &ndash; The [[United Retail Federation]] is established in [[Brisbane]], Australia.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July]] &ndash; [[James Blyth (engineer)|James Blyth]] operates the first working [[wind turbine]] at [[Marykirk]], Scotland.<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Price|first=Trevor J.|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/100957|title=Blyth, James (1839–1906)|edition=Online|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/100957|access-date=2014-04-16}} </ref>
* [[July 1]] &ndash; Construction of the iron structure of the [[Eiffel Tower]] starts in Paris, France.
* [[July 6]] &ndash; King [[Kalākaua]] of [[Kingdom of Hawaii|Hawai'i]] is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the '[[1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii|Bayonet Constitution]]', stripping the [[Hawaiian monarchy]] of much of its authority, as well as [[Disenfranchisement|disenfranchising]] most [[native Hawaiians]], all [[Asians in Hawaii|Asians]] and the poor.
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Odense Boldklub]], the Danish football team, is founded as the Odense Cricket Club.
* [[July 19]] &ndash; [[Dorr Eugene Felt]] receives the first U.S. patent for his [[comptometer]].<ref>[https://patents.google.com/patent/US366945 U.S. Patent No. 366,945], filed July 6, 1886; second patent granted October 11, 1887: [https://patents.google.com/patent/US371496 U.S. Patent No. 371,496], filed March 12, 1887.</ref>
* [[July 21]] - 10 Italian workers killed and 6 injured by a train in New Jersey<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 22, 1887 |title=Ten Men Cut To Pieces - A Train Runs Over A Gang Of Italians |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/07/22/issue.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |pages=5}}</ref>
* [[July 26]]
** [[L. L. Zamenhof]] publishes "''[[Unua Libro]]''" (''Dr. Esperanto's International Language''), the first description of [[Esperanto]], the [[Constructed language|constructed]] [[international auxiliary language]].
** [[Blackpool F.C.]] is created in England, U.K.
* [[August]] &ndash; The earliest constituent of the U.S. [[National Institutes of Health]] is established at the Marine Hospital, [[Staten Island]], as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Hibernian F.C.]] of Scotland defeats [[Preston North End F.C.]] of England to win the 'Championship of the World', after the two teams win the [[Association football]] Cup competitions in their respective countries.
* [[September 5]] &ndash; The [[Theatre Royal, Exeter]], England, burns down, killing 186 people.
* [[September 28]] &ndash; The [[1887 Yellow River flood]] begins in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.
[[File:Flag of Esperanto.svg|thumb|135px|right| [[July 26]]: [[Esperanto]]]]

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; The [[British Empire]] takes over [[Balochistan]].
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Florida A&M University]] opens in [[Tallahassee, Florida]].
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Yamaha Corporation]], the global [[musical instrument]] and [[audiovisual]] brand, is founded as Yamaha Organ Manufacturing in [[Hamamatsu]], Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/history/|title=Brand and History - About Us - Yamaha Corporation|website=www.yamaha.com|language=en-US|access-date=2021-05-19}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] &ndash; [[French Indochina]] was established, comprising (Lower) [[French Cochinchina|Cochinchina]], (Upper) [[Annam (French protectorate)|Annam]], [[Tonkin (French protectorate)|Tonkin]], and [[French protectorate of Cambodia|Cambodia]].
* [[November]]
** Results of the [[Michelson–Morley experiment]] are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
** [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s detective character [[Sherlock Holmes]] makes his first appearance, in the novel ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]'', published in ''[[Beeton's Christmas Annual]]''.
* [[November 3]] &ndash; The [[Coimbra Academic Association]], the [[students' union]] of the [[University of Coimbra]] in Portugal, is founded.
* [[November 6]] &ndash; The [[Association football]] club [[Celtic F.C.]] is formed in [[Glasgow]], Scotland, by Irish [[Marist Brothers|Marist]] [[Brother Walfrid]], to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the 'Poor Children's Dinner Table'.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coogan|first=Tim Pat|author-link=Tim Pat Coogan|title=Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2002|page=250|isbn=978-1-4039-6014-6}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[Emile Berliner]] is granted a U.S. patent for the [[Berliner Gramophone]].
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Louis Lingg]], sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the [[Haymarket affair]] (a bombing in Chicago on [[May 4]], [[1886]]), kills himself by [[dynamite]].
* [[November 11]] &ndash; [[August Spies]], [[Albert Parsons]], [[Adolph Fischer]] and [[George Engel]] are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the [[Haymarket affair]].
* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Bloody Sunday (1887)|Bloody Sunday]]: Police in London clash with radical and [[Irish nationalist]] protesters.
* [[December 4]] – [[Örgryte IS]], the Swedish football team is founded by [[Wilhelm Friberg]]. 
* [[December 5]] &ndash; The International Bureau of [[Intellectual Property]] is established.
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Glenfiddich]] single malt Scotch whisky is first produced.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Heinrich Hertz]] discovers the [[photoelectric effect]] on the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves (radio); this is an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light.
* [[Franz König (surgeon)|Franz König]] publishes "Über freie Körper in den Gelenken" in the medical journal ''Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie'', describing (and naming) the disease [[Osteochondritis dissecans]] for the first time.
* [[Teachers College, Columbia University|Teachers College]], later part of [[Columbia University]], is founded.
* The first English-language edition of [[Friedrich Engels]]' 1844 study of ''[[The Condition of the Working Class in England]]'', translated by [[Florence Kelley]], is published in [[New York City]].
* Publication in [[Barcelona]] of [[Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau|Enrique Gaspar]]'s ''El anacronópete'', the first work of fiction to feature a [[Time travel|time machine]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Kathryn|last=Westcott|title=HG Wells or Enrique Gaspar: Whose time machine was first?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-europe-12900390|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2011-04-09|access-date=2011-04-09}}</ref>
* Publication begins of [[Futabatei Shimei]]'s ''[[The Drifting Cloud]] (Ukigumo)'', the first modern novel in Japan.
* The [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] is founded.
* Nagase Shoten (長瀬商店), predecessor of [[Japan]]ese [[cosmetics]] and [[toiletry]] [[brand]] [[Kao Corporation]], is founded in [[Nihonbashi]], [[Tokyo]], Japan.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
* Tokyo Fire Insurance, predecessor of [[Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance]], is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Limited History|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/THE-YASUDA-FIRE-AND-MARINE-INSURANCE-COMPANY-LIMITED-Company-History.html|work=Funding Universe|accessdate=2021-05-19}}</ref>
* [[Taiwan Island|Taiwan]] becomes a [[Qing dynasty|Chinese]] province
* Global [[construction]] and [[real estate development]] company [[Skanska]] is founded in [[Malmö]], [[Sweden]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our history|url=https://group.skanska.com/about-us/our-history/|access-date=2020-10-19|website=Skanska - Global corporate website|language=en-US}}</ref>
* American financial services company [[A. G. Edwards]] is founded by General [[Albert Gallatin Edwards]] in [[St. Louis]], Missouri.
* [[Heyl & Patterson Inc.]], a pioneer in coal unloading equipment, is founded by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania.
* The first [[Battery electric multiple unit|battery rail car]] is used on the [[Royal Bavarian State Railways]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Ben |year=2010 |title=Battery Rail Vehicles |url=http://railknowledgebank.com/Presto/content/GetDoc.axd?ctID=MTk4MTRjNDUtNWQ0My00OTBmLTllYWUtZWFjM2U2OTE0ZDY3&rID=NzA=&pID=Nzkx&attchmnt=True&uSesDM=False&rIdx=MjUyOA==&rCFU= |access-date=2021-05-19 |website=Rail Knowledge Bank}}</ref>