Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1874.

"We should not have expressed the heresey, but felt there was some kind of life higher than that of a dealer in groceries." - Charles Fort, born 6th August 1874.

August

• August 6: Charles Hoy Fort is Born, Albany, New York to an upper-middle class family of grocers of Dutch stock."

September

October

• October 19: The modern University of Zagreb is founded in Zagreb.
• October 20: The American Composer Charles Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut.

November

• November 4: Democrats regain the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860.
• November 7: Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.
• November 10: John Ernst Worrell Keely demonstrates his "induction resonance motion motor" (a later investigation reveals fraud behind another perpetual motion machine). (Books1059) 
• November 11:The Gamma Phi Beta sorority is founded at Syracuse University. This is the first women's Greek letter organization to be called a sorority.
• November 25: The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.

December

• December 1: Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule.
• December 9: A Transit of Venus occurs.