WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 1887
Find out what all happened March to August 1887

Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator. (8. June 1887)

David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. (6. July 1887)

Mumbai Fire Brigade is established. (1. April 1887)

Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States. (4. April 1887)

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. (9. May 1887)

A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war. (28. April 1887)

Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay. (20. June 1887)

The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi. (4. July 1887)

The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. (23. June 1887)

The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed. (18. June 1887)

On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America. (10. April 1887)

Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement. (26. July 1887)