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unusual facts about Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 1873–1878



Adelaide Mansions

The "handsome block", decorated with ornate details, was erected in 1873 to the design of local architect Thomas Lainson.

Alfred Comyn Lyall

Lyall's ideas regarding the development and organisation of society in India were developed principally during the time he spent working in the Central Provinces, Berar and Rajputana between 1865 and 1878.

Alfred Dundas Taylor

Alfred Dundas Taylor was born August 30, 1825 in England, son of George Ledwell Taylor (1788–1873), a civil architect to the Admiralty in the UK.

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama

After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Armenians in Bulgaria

In 1878, there were 5,300 Armenians in the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia, and this number increased by almost 20,000 after the Hamidian massacres.

Aurora Pavlovna Demidova

Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (2/3 November 1873, Kiev – 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904, Turin) was a Russian noblewoman of the Demidov family.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Bohumil Makovsky

Bohumil Makovsky represented a fulfillment of the "American Dream." He was born on September 23, 1878 in Františky, Bohemia to a Czech speaking family of Vaclav and Anna Hladik Makovsky.

Botho zu Eulenburg

Eulenburg worked in high positions of the Prussian and German administration in Wiesbaden (1869–1872), Metz (president of the Département de la Lorraine; 1872–1873) and upper president of the Province of Hanover (1873–1878).

C. fenestrata

Cotinusa fenestrata, Taczanowski, 1878, a jumping spider species in the genus Cotinusa found in Peru

Calixto Bravo Villaso

He dies in 1878, he was the last survivor from the Mexican War of Independence.

Carl Otto Reventlow

Carl Otto Reventlow (actually Karl Carl Christian Otto; born 1817 in Store Heddinge (Denmark), died in 1873) became notable as the developer of a mnemonic system.

Charles Manegold, Jr.

In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

Edward Irvin Scott

Around 1878, the paper commission failed, and the family lived in Camden, New Jersey,

Epes W. Sargent

He was born in Nassau, Bahamas on August 21, 1872; he came to the United States in 1878 with his parents.

Fernando Magalhães

Fernando Magalhães (February 18, 1878 – January 10, 1944) was a Brazilian obstetrician who was twice President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's books.

Friedrich Frey-Herosé

Friedrich Frey-Herosé (12 October 1801, Lindau - 22 September 1873) was a Swiss politician.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

Henry Lynch

Henry Lynch-Staunton (1873–1941), British sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics

Henry Melville

Henry Melville (1799-1873) was an Australian author and journalist best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers.

Howard M. Snapp

He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Globe, Arizona and returned to Joliet, Illinois, and continued the practice of law.

Hristo G. Danov

As the war led to Bulgaria's liberation, Danov had his printing office moved from Vienna to Plovdiv (which in 1878 became the capital of autonomous Eastern Rumelia, which united with the Principality of Bulgaria in 1885).

International Association of the Congo

It was not made clear to Henry Morton Stanley, who signed a five-year contract to establish bases in the Congo in 1878, whether he was working for the International African Association, the Committee for Study of the Upper Congo, or Leopold himself.

James Duffy

James P.B. Duffy (1878–1969), former U.S. Congressman from New York

James Henry Carleton

General Carleton died, serving with the Fourth Cavalry Regiment in his permanent rank of Lieutenant Colonel, at age 59 in January 7, 1873, in San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; his son, Henry was later buried beside him.

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (30 October 1873 – 9 August 1938) was the sixth Bishop and second Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.

Kempster Blanchard Miller

His brother was businessman, rancher and citrus farmer Azariel Blanchard Miller (1878–1941), founder of the city of Fontana, California.

Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik

1873, after the Franco-Prussian War, those rifles were adapted to the new standard (system Beck); in 1875, the rifles were replaced by the Mauser Model 1871.

Louis-Léon Cugnot

Monument to the Battle of Callao, with a finial figure of Nike, historical and allegorical bronzes, and friezes of the battle, for Plaza Dos de Mayo, Lima, Peru, circa 1873

Louise Ebert

Louise Ebert (born 1873 in Melchiorshausen/Weyhe as Louise Rump died 1955 in Heidelberg) on May 9, 1894 in Bremen married Friedrich Ebert, who from his election in 1919 until his death on 28 February 1925 served as the first Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic.

Luigi Voltan

The Luigi Voltan Shoe Company is a shoemaker founded in the Italian village of Stra in 1898 by Giovanni Luigi Voltan (1873–1941).

Martin Buber

--This source says this Martin Buber's birthdate and death is 1878 to 1965 so it has to be the same person-->Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten included the first German translation ever made of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Martin Krippner

He was chairman of the Puhoi Highway District Board in 1874, and in 1877 and 1878 served on the Rodney County Council.

Masindi

As capital of Bunyoro, Masindi was visited by Samuel Baker, a British explorer and anti-slavery campaigner, from 25 April 1872 to 14 June 1873.

Max Bruch

Bruch had a long career as a teacher, conductor and composer, moving among musical posts in Germany: Mannheim (1862–1864), Koblenz (1865–1867), Sondershausen, (1867–1870), Berlin (1870–1872), and Bonn, where he spent 1873–78 working privately.

Milton Sayler

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress.

Mutty Lall Seal

In 1878 Kissori Chand Mitra delivered a lecture on the life of Mutty Lall Seal calling him the "Rothschild of Calcutta".

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Nikolay Nikolsky

Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (May 19, 1878 – November 2, 1961) - Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of Chuvash ethnicity.

Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo

In 1873, the newly discovered swallowtail butterfly Papilio mayo from the Andaman Islands was named in honor of the late earl.

Rimsky Korsakov

Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov (1878–1940), Russian musicologist and son of Nikolai

Sidney Brownsberger

The following year (1873), Adventist church leaders invited him to head the fledgling school that had been established in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet

Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Harrold Priory (1878–1963), Scottish businessman, writer and lecturer

Society to Encourage Studies at Home

The Society to Encourage Studies at Home was founded in 1873 by Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823–1896), daughter of George Ticknor, historian and Harvard professor.

United States House of Representatives elections in Florida, 1880

The Democrats had gained complete control of Florida's congressional delegation in 1878, although the results of the election in the 2nd district were successfully challenged, so that a single Republican represented Florida in the House for the last two months of the 46th Congress.

William J. McKee

In 1873, he married Mary Baby, the granddaughter of James Baby (baptized Jacques).

Yeruchom Levovitz

He was born in 1873 (5633 in the Jewish calendar) in Lyuban, Minsk Voblast, Belarus (near Slutsk) to Avraham and Chasha Levovitz.


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