Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1887. 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

The year 1887 in film involved some significant events. Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film. Louis Le Prince's 16-lens camera...

legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1886 and 1887, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative...

The Hawaiian rebellions and revolutions took place in Hawaii between 1887 and 1895. Until annexation in 1898, Hawaii was an independent sovereign state...

The 1887 Yellow River flood in Qing China began in September 1887 and killed at least 930,000 people. It was the single deadliest flood in China, making...

The 1887 Canadian federal election was held on February 22, 1887, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 6th Parliament of Canada. The...

The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 are lever-action shotguns designed by American gun designer John Browning and produced by the Winchester...

League One, the third level of the English football league system. Founded in 1887, the club played home games at Raikes Hall and the Athletic Grounds before...

(Serbian: Ђорђе Карађорђевић / Đorđe Karađorđević; 8 September (O.S. 27 August) 1887 – 17 October 1972), was the eldest son of King Peter I of Serbia and his...

Federal elections were held in Germany on 21 February 1887. The National Liberal Party became the largest party in the Reichstag by winning 98 of the 397...

There were special elections in 1887 to the United States House of Representatives to the 49th United States Congress and the 50th United States Congress...

Bloody Sunday was an event which took place in London, England on 13 November 1887, when a crowd of marchers protesting about unemployment and the Irish Coercion...

The 1887 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a legal document prepared by anti-monarchists to strip the absolute Hawaiian monarchy of much of its...

California Assembly Bill 1887, or AB 1887, is a state statute that banned state-funded and sponsored travel to states with laws deemed discriminatory against...

The Hatch Act of 1887 (ch. 314, 24 Stat. 440, enacted 1887-03-02, 7 U.S.C. § 361a et seq.) gave federal funds, initially $15,000 each, to state land-grant...

The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within the...

The 1887 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record at the time in terms of the number of known tropical storms...

Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, GCB (3 December 1802 – 23 February 1887) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Born the...

Beatrice Venetia Stanley Montagu (22 August 1887 – 3 August 1948) was a British aristocrat and socialite best known for the many letters that Prime Minister...

1887 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships College championship College football national championship...

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1887. June–July - Carl Humann works at Hierapolis. A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna...

Bion 8 or Kosmos 1887 (in Russian: Бион 8, Космос 1887) was a Bion satellite. Bion 8 carried a payload of biological and radiation physics experiments...

Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888. The book was...

Events from the year 1887 in the United States. President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York) Vice President: vacant Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (Ohio) Speaker...

Sir Horace Jones PPRIBA (20 May 1819 – 21 May 1887) was an English architect particularly noted for his work as architect and surveyor to the City of London...

sequence of unsolved murders of women occurring in London, England from 1887 to 1889. The series included four incidents which were filed as belonging...

find no expression for their grief." The 1887 Swarthmore football team represented Swarthmore during the 1887 college football season. Penn, Haverford...

John Taylor (1 November 1808 – 25 July 1887) was an English-born religious leader who served as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

The Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 49–90, 24 Stat. 373, later codified at Title 3, Chapter 1) is a United...

company took a share holding in the North British Distillery Company. In 1887 the company became part of a group that founded Highland Distilllers, with...