Events That Happened in 1887

1887 Events

1887 Buffalo Bill's Wild West tours Europe
In 1887 he took the show to Britain in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria. The show was staged in London before going on to Birmingham and then Salford near Manchester, whe...
1887 Oscar Wilde is Appointed Editor of 'The Lady's World'
His flair, having previously only been put into socialising, suited journalism and did not go unnoticed. With his youth nearly over, and a family to support, in mid-1887 Wilde became the ...
1887 War of Currents era begins
During the initial years of electricity distribution, Edison's direct current was the standard for the United States and Edison was not inclined to lose all his patent royalties. Direct c...
1887 Wright arrives in Chicago and Works for Joseph Lyman Silsbee
In 1887, Wright arrived in Chicago in search of employment. Resulting from the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city...
1887 Jan 20 King of Hawaii Grants the United States Exclusive Use of Pearl Harbor as a Naval Base.
On January 20, 1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base[4] (the US took possession on November 9 that year). The Spanish-American War of 1898 ...
1887 Feb 8 The Dawes Act Is Passed
The Dawes Act was enacted on February 8, 1887 regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma. Named after its sponsor, U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, th...
1887 Mar 14 The Bussey Bridge Train Disaster
The recent terrible disaster at the White River bridge, on the Central Vermont railroad, was paralleled, and, with the exception of the fire feature, almost exactly duplicated at Bussey b...
1887 Apr Nikola Tesla begins experimenting with X-Rays
In April 1887, Tesla began investigating what would later be called X-rays using his own single terminal vacuum tubes (similar to his patent #514,170). This device differed from other ear...
1887 May 3 Nanaimo Mine Explosion
The Nanaimo mine explosion on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killed 150 miners. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day. The explosion started deep u...
1887 Jun 4 Pasteur Institute Is Founded
The international subscription launched by the French Académie des Sciences in 1887 to allow Louis Pasteur to found his institute and thus provide rabies vaccinations, pursue the study of...
1887 Jun 25 George Abbott is Born
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more ...
1887 Jul 30 Custody of Blind Tom Wiggins granted to Eliza Stutzbach, widow of John Bethune
On July 30, 1887, a federal court ordered General Bethune to surrender Tom at Arlington, Virginia into the hands of Charity and his former daughter-in-law Eliza Bethune. Newspapers report...
1887 Aug 10 Great Chatsworth Train Wreck
The scene that followed it is impossible to describe. The hapless passengers of the forward cars were, almost inextricably mingled in the shattered mass. The engineer of the second engine...
1887 Sep 5 Theatre Royal Fire
On the 5th September 1887, on the first night of a romantic comedy called Romany Rye, and with an audience of 800, a naked gas flame ignited some drapes in the fly's. Within moments, pani...
1887 Sep 13 Theodore Roosevelt, Junior Is Born
"Teddy," as he was, in childhood, universally known, was the son of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was born at the family estate in Oyster Bay Cove, New York, when his father was just s...
1887 Sep 28 Yellow River Flood of 1887
China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than 1000 times. But it is the Hwang Ho or "Yellow River" th...