1874

Centuries: Year in Review 19th Century (18th century - 19th century - 20th century)

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 - 1874 - 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879

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Events

• Home Rule Movement created to protest British Government control over Ireland. (see History of Ireland)
• First Impressionist exhibition, Paris; name coined in hostile review of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise
• Opening of the Agra canal in India.

Births

• February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author.
• February 11 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer.

Deaths