1874

1874

New York City annexes the Bronx.

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. (I'm stretching, I know! Bit of a boring year, this.)

Born: Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Shackleton, Harry Houdini, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Fort, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Holst, Charles Ives (big year for composers!)

died: no one I'm particularly interested in

Anton Bruckner - Symphony #4 in E flat, "Romantic"

Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre, op. 40

Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence,
Striking with his heel a tomb,
Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,
Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.
The winter wind blows and the night is dark;
Moans are heard in the linden trees.
Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,
Running and leaping in their shrouds.
Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,
The bones of the dancers are heard to crack—
But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,
They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.