1875

1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1875th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 875th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 19th century, and the 6th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1875, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  – 1870s –  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1872 1873 1874 – 1875 – 1876 1877 1878

1875 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1875 MDCCCLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2628
Armenian calendar	1324 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԴ
Assyrian calendar	6625
Bahá'í calendar	31–32
Balinese saka calendar	1796–1797
Bengali calendar	1282
Berber calendar	2825
British Regnal year	38 Vict. 1 – 39 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2419
Burmese calendar	1237
Byzantine calendar	7383–7384
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4571 or 4511     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4572 or 4512
Coptic calendar	1591–1592
Discordian calendar	3041
Ethiopian calendar	1867–1868
Hebrew calendar	5635–5636
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1931–1932
- Shaka Samvat	1796–1797
- Kali Yuga	4975–4976
Holocene calendar	11875
Igbo calendar	875–876
Iranian calendar	1253–1254
Islamic calendar	1291–1292
Japanese calendar	Meiji 8 (明治８年)
Javanese calendar	1803–1804
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4208
Minguo calendar	37 before ROC 民前37年
Nanakshahi calendar	407
Thai solar calendar	2417–2418
Tibetan calendar	阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 2001 or 1620 or 848     — to — 阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 2002 or 1621 or 849

Events

• March 3 – Georges Bizet's Carmen debuts in Paris
• Wadworth Brewery founded.

Births

• February 2 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer
• February 28 – Christie MacDonald, actress and singer
• May – Paul Sarebresole
• July 26 – Carl Jung
• September 3 – Ferdinand Porsche, German car designer

Deaths

• June 3 – Georges Bizet

Published music

• "Angels, Meet Me At the Cross Road"     w.m. Will Hays
• "Carve Dat Possum" by Sam Lucas & Herbert Hershy
• "Dreaming Forever of Thee"      w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "Grandfather's Clock"     w.m. Henry C. Work
• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"     w.m. Thomas P. Westendorf
• "Nancy Lee" w. Frederick Edward Weatherly, m. Stephen Adams (pseudonym of Michael Maybrick)
• "The Witches Flight (Galop Caprice)" by Henry A. Russell

Musical theater

• Trial By Jury, Gilbert & Sullivan, London production opened at the Royalty Theatre on March 25
• Trial By Jury Philadelphia production opened at the Arch Street Theatre on October 22
• Trial By Jury, New York production opened at the Eagle Theatre on November 15
• The Zoo, Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe Music: Arthur Sullivan, London production opened at St. James Theatre on June 5