Editing 1875 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* April &ndash; '[[Albert's swarm]]' of [[Rocky Mountain locust]]s begins to devastate the [[western United States]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lockwood|first=Jeffrey A.|title=Locust: the Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier|year=2004|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York|isbn=0-7382-0894-9}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] &ndash; The [[Arya Samaj]] is founded in Mumbai by Swami [[Dayananda Saraswati]].
* [[April 25]] &ndash; Ten [[sophomores]] from [[Rutgers University|Rutgers College]] (modern-day Rutgers University) steal a one-ton cannon from the campus of the [[Princeton University|College of New Jersey]] (modern-day Princeton University), and start the [[Rutgers–Princeton Cannon War]].
* [[May 7]]
** The [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)|Treaty of Saint Petersburg]] is signed between Japan and Russia.
** German liner {{SS|Schiller}} wrecks on the rocks off the [[Isles of Scilly]], with the loss of 335 lives.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Aristides (horse)|Aristides]] wins the first [[Kentucky Derby]].
* [[May 20]] &ndash; The [[Metre Convention]] is signed in Paris, France.
* June &ndash; The record-setting American [[clipper]] ''[[Flying Cloud (clipper)|Flying Cloud]]'' of [[1851]] is burned for scrap metal.
* [[June 4]] &ndash; Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of [[college football]]:<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Ronald A.|title=Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics|url=https://archive.org/details/sportsfreedomris0000smit|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1988}}</ref> [[Tufts University]] and [[Harvard University]] at [[Jarvis Field]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
* [[June 18]] &ndash; The [[Dublin whiskey fire]] in Ireland leaves 13 people dead and causes more than €6 million worth of damage.
* [[June 29]] &ndash; The [[Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875]] is passed in the United Kingdom, to permit [[Slum clearance in the United Kingdom|slum clearance]].