1887

This page lists news articles and events for the year 1887.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• Event: The first modern discovery of the fossilized remains of a triceratops was in 1887 near Denver, Colorado.
• Event: Big Well, Kansas well is dug.
• Event: The first of several experiments that start to undermine the theory of Lumineferous Aether

January

• January 22:
  • Event: Ruddigore; or The Witch's Curse by Gilbert and Sullivan opens at the Savoy Theater in London
• January 28:
  • Event: Largest ever recorded snowflakes. 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick! (38 cm and 20 cm) This is recorded at Fort Keogh, Montana.
  • Event: Construction on the foundation of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.

February

March

April

• April 21:
  • Event: Earthquake in Sonorra, Mexico

May

• May 27
  • Event: Hells Canyon Massacre - 34 Chinese goldminers were ambushed and murdered in Hells Canyon, Oregon.

June

July

August

September

• September 5
  • Event: Fire at The Theatre Royal, Exeter, England, kills 186.

• September 28
  • Event: 1887 Yellow River Flood kills 900,000 to 2,000,000 in China.

October

November

• November 10: Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his role in the Haymarket Affair, commits suicide by dynamite.
• November 11: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are hanged for their part in the Haymarket Affair (a bombing in Chicago that happened in 1886.
• November 13: Bloody Sunday: London police clash with Irish nationalist protesters.

December