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| 1874 |
| | | French critic Louis Leroy uses the term 'impressionism' to ridicule Monet's Impression, Sunrise, and unwittingly names a movement | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli, at the age of 70, begins a 6-year term of office as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Major Walter Wingfield secures a patent for Sphairistike, a game he has developed at his home in Wales, from which lawn tennis evolves | |
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| 1874 |
| | | The southern region of present-day Ghana becomes a British colony, to be known as the Gold Coast | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Stanley sets off from Bagamoyo, intending to resume the exploration of central Africa where Livingstone left off | |
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| 1874 |
| | | Mussorgsky composes Pictures at an Exhibition as a piece for piano in memory of an exhibition by the Russian painter Victor Hartmann | |
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| 1874 |
| | | English author Thomas Hardy has his first success with his novel Far from the Madding Crowd | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg | |
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| 1875 |
| | | The return to Spain of Isabella's son, as Alfonso XII, offers an end to forty years of royal feuding | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Georges Bizet's opera Carmen has its premiere in Paris and meets at first with a lukewarm response | |
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