1874

* 1874*

1874 was an interesting year.

From Wikipedia

New York City annexed The Bronx.

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

The Universal Postal Union was established.

The Philadelphia Zoo opened, the first public zoo in the United States.

The New York Zoo hoax, a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo, was perpetrated on the public.

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, with cylindrical platen and QWERTY keyboard, was first marketed in the United States.

The Chicago Fire of 1874 burned down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20 people.

Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp, with an electric light bulb.

And, of course

The Dubuque Chess Journal published "New Chess Opening" Alonzo Wheeler Jerome's "analyses of a new move in the Giuoco Piano, first played by him, which we offer our readers as: Jerome's Double Opening" - later known as the Jerome Gambit