1875

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( 1870s: )     1875
Much calumniated by later historians, but essentially powerless, the Empress Dowager Cixi experiences the decades of collapse of Manchu China, as 4 year old Guangxu becomes emperor.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Oslo Commerce School			A traditional mercantile high school in "the best part" of Oslo.
Brigham Young University		Private not-for-profit space grant	99 percent of the students are Mormons
Queen Margaret University		Public	Hosting the Institute for International Health & Development
Aligarh Muslim University			Before 1939, faculty members and students supported an all-India nationalist movement but after 1939, the university came to be a center of the Pakistan Movement.
Chernivtsi University			Founded in 1875 as the Austrian-Hungarian Franz-Josephs-Universität
University of Birmingham		Public	University located in Birmingham, England
High Court of Justice			First instance with all high value and high importance civil law (non-criminal) cases in England, and also has a supervisory jurisdiction over all subordinate courts and tribunals.

 

A Death

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary
Andrew Johnson	29 December 1808	31 July 1875	Elizabethton Tennessee U.S.	Politician

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Ross Sterling	11 February 1875	Texas Anahuac	25 March 1949		Governor of Texas 1931-1933
Syngman Rhee	26 March 1875		19 July 1965	Politician Puppet leader	The US installed first puppet leader of South Korea
Owen Roberts	2 May 1875	Pennsylvania Philadelphia U.S.	2 May 1955		Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1930-1945
William Leahy	6 May 1875	US Iowa Hampton	20 July 1959	Diplomat Mariner	US naval officer and ambassador to Vichy France from 1940 to 1942.
Alfred Sloan	23 May 1875	Connecticut New Haven	17 February 1966	Businessperson
George Herbert Walker	11 June 1875	US Missouri St. Louis	24 June 1953	Financier	Father of George Herbert Walker Jr
John Buchan	26 August 1875	Scotland Perth	11 February 1940	Spook Politician Propagandist Deep state operative	UK deep state operative. Member of the Outer Circle of the Milner Group and Governor General of Canada from 1935-1940.
Eric Holt-Wilson	26 August 1875		26 March 1950	Spook Soldier	Draft The Defence of the Realm Act in 1914, later head of MI5
Aleister Crowley	12 October 1875	Warwickshire UK Royal Leamington Spa England	1 December 1947	Author Poet Occultism Mountaineer	Well known British occultist with wide reaching, but little known about cultural influence.
Frederic Eggleston	17 October 1875		12 November 1954	Diplomat Politician Lawyer Deep state operative	chief Australian member of the Milner Group
Eugene Meyer	31 October 1875	Los Angeles California U.S.	17 July 1959	Spook Central banker	Chair of the Federal Reserve in the 1930s, President of the World Bank Group in the 1940s, assisted in the set up of George H. W. Bush's Zapata.
'Friedrich von der Schulenburg'	20 November 1875	Germany Kemberg	10 November 1944	Diplomat

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