1875 in the United States
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Events from the year 1875 in the United States.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Undated 2 References 3 External links

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• February 25 – The majority of the Yavapai (Wipukyipai) and Tonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes are forced by the U.S. Cavalry under command of Brigadier General George Crook to walk at gunpoint from the Arizona's Verde Valley, to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.
• February 27 – Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California, resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor of California Romualdo Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected governor William Irwin.
• March 1 – The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in public accommodations and jury duty.
• April 25 – Ten sophomores from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) steal a one-ton cannon from the campus of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and start the Rutgers-Princeton Cannon War.
• May 17 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
• June 4 – Two American colleges play each other in arguably the first game of College Football ^[1]: Tufts University and Harvard University at Jarvis Field in Cambridge, Mass..
• October 16 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
• October 25 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
• October 30 – The Theosophical Society is founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q. Judge, and others.
• November 9 – Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).
• December 4 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then to Spain.
• December 9 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is formed.

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• The Tong wars begin in San Francisco.

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[edit] External links

• Media related to 1875 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons