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List of 1887 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1887

What happened in the year 1887?

Date Event
January 20, 1887 The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
February 2, 1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 8, 1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
February 23, 1887 The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
April 4, 1887 Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
April 10, 1887 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
April 28, 1887 A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
June 8, 1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
June 18, 1887 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
June 23, 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
July 4, 1887 The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
July 6, 1887 David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
July 26, 1887 Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
September 5, 1887 A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
October 1, 1887 Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
November 9, 1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 11, 1887 August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
November 13, 1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.