Timeline September 1874

Events in September 1874 4

• 1787 – 1874 Francois Guizot (1787-1874) Died 12 September 1874, aged 86 Guizot was a historian and statesman who served as prime minister of France under King Louis Philippe. His conservative policies and resistance to electoral reform contributed to the 1848 revolution that toppled the July Monarchy. He later devoted himself to historical writing.
• 1798 – 1874 Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont (1798-1874) Died 21 September 1874, aged 75 Elie de Beaumont was a French geologist known for his theories on mountain formation and his geological mapping of France. He served as a professor at the College de France and permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. His mountain-building theories, though later superseded, were influential in nineteenth-century geology.
• 1874 Bengal famine relief effort Colonial relief effort averts mass starvation in eastern India Following drought and crop failure in Bihar and Bengal, the British Indian government under Lieutenant Governor Richard Temple organized large-scale grain imports and public works relief. The effort is credited with preventing mass deaths, in contrast to earlier and later Indian famines, though its high cost drew criticism in London. A good harvest later in the year ended the emergency.
• 1874 – 1951 Arnold Schoenberg 12-tone music inventor Austrian composer who invented the 12-tone technique, one of the most influential — and controversial — compositional methods of the 20th century.