Editing 1887 (section)

=== 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.