1874

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  – 1870s –  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1871 1872 1873 – 1874 – 1875 1876 1877

1874 Media

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  John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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  Robert Frost, American poet

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  Louise Henry Hoover

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  Guglielmo Marconi, portrait, head and shoulders, facing left.

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  Informal portrait of Howard Carter (the archaeologist) standing with a book in his hand next to a train at a station in Chicago, Illinois.

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  US President Herbert C. Hoover in 1928

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  Carl Bosch (* 27. August 1874 in Köln; † 26. April 1940 in Heidelberg)

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  Karsh called this picture "The Roaring Lion"

1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1874th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 874th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1874, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Births

• March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
• August 10 – Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States (d. 1964)
• September 13 – Arnold Schoenberg
• November 30 – Winston Churchill, sixty-first and sixty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1965)