What happened in 1875

16 events　World 2, Japan 2, North America 2, Europe 4, USSR / Russia 2, Asia 3, Middle East 1

Highlights of 1875

Apr 10AsiaThe Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
May 7USSR / RussiaThe Treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia.
May 20WorldThe Metre Convention is signed in Paris, France.
Jul 1EuropeThe General Postal Union is established.
Jul 11JapanTanaka Manufacturing, a telecommunications factory in Ginza, Tokyo, a predecessor of Toshiba, a Japanese electromechanics giant, is founded.
Oct 16North AmericaBrigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.

May 20The Metre Convention is signed in Paris, France.
Jun 18The Dublin whiskey fire in Ireland leaves 13 people dead and causes more than €6 million worth of damage.

Jul 11Tanaka Manufacturing, a telecommunications factory in Ginza, Tokyo, a predecessor of Toshiba, a Japanese electromechanics giant, is founded.
Nov 29Dōshisha English School, predecessor of Dōshisha University, is founded in Kyōto, Japan.

Apr'Albert's swarm' of Rocky Mountain locusts begins to devastate the western United States.
Oct 16Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.

Jan 5The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated as the home of the Paris Opera.
Jan 24Camille Saint-Saëns' orchestral Danse macabre receives its première.
Mar 3Bizet's Carmen is first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, France, three months before the composer's death.
Jul 1The General Postal Union is established.

May 7The Treaty of Saint Petersburg is signed between Japan and Russia.
Oct 25The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts, with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

Jan 12Guangxu becomes the 11th Qing dynasty Emperor of China at the age of 3. He succeeds his cousin, the Tongzhi Emperor, who had no sons of his own.
Apr 10The Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
Oct 30The Theosophical Society is founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and others.

Sep 7Battle of Agurdat: An Egyptian invasion of Ethiopia fails, when Emperor Yohannes IV defeats an army led by Werner Munzinger.