What happened in 1887

27 events　World 4, Japan 1, North America 9, Europe 11, Asia 1, Africa 1

Highlights of 1887

Jan 24AfricaBattle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians.
Jan 28EuropeConstruction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
Jul 26WorldL. L. Zamenhof publishes "Unua Libro" (Dr. Esperanto's International Language), the first description of Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language.
AugNorth AmericaThe earliest constituent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is established at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
Sep 28AsiaThe 1887 Yellow River flood begins in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.
JapanTokyo Fire Insurance, predecessor of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance, is founded.

Jul 26L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Unua Libro" (Dr. Esperanto's International Language), the first description of Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language.
Nov 11August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket affair.
NovResults of the Michelson–Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is founded.

Tokyo Fire Insurance, predecessor of Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance, is founded.

Jan 21The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States.
Feb 4The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, passed by the 49th United States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
Feb 8The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is enacted in the United States.
Mar 7North Carolina State University is established, as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
Apr 20Occidental College is founded in Los Angeles, California.
AprApril 10 (Easter Sunday) – The Catholic University of America is founded in Washington, D.C.
AugThe earliest constituent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is established at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
Oct 3Florida A&M University opens in Tallahassee, Florida.
Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded.

Jan 28Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
Feb 5The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala, Milan.
Jun 18The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia.
Jul 1Construction of the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
Jul 6Berthe bombing, targeting a Parisian landowner in conflict with several Italian anarchists. Nobody is sentenced but Vittorio Pini and Paolo Chiericotti are heavily suspected by French authorities.
Oct 17French Indochina was established, comprising (Lower) Cochinchina, (Upper) Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodia.
Nov 10Louis 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.
Nov 13Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.
NovArthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.
Dec 25Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky is first produced.
Global construction and real estate development company Skanska is founded in Malmö, Sweden.

Sep 28The 1887 Yellow River flood begins in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.