Timeline January 1875

Events in January 1875 4

• 1814 – 1875 Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) Died 20 January 1875, aged 60 Millet was a French painter best known for The Gleaners and The Angelus, works that dignified the labor of peasant life. He was a founding figure of the Barbizon school of rural landscape and genre painting.
• 1814 – 1875 Jean-François Millet Realism · France Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French Realist painter and founding member of the Barbizon school. His dignified depictions of peasant labour, including The Gleaners and The Angelus, profoundly influenced van Gogh.
• 1819 – 1875 Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Died 23 January 1875, aged 55 Kingsley was an English clergyman and author best known for the children's novel The Water-Babies and the historical novel Westward Ho!. He was also a prominent Christian socialist and social reformer.
• 1875 French constitutional laws of 1875 adopted Wallon Amendment and constitutional laws establish the Third Republic The French National Assembly passed a series of constitutional laws creating a bicameral parliament and an indirectly elected president, formally establishing the Third Republic. The Wallon Amendment, passed by a single vote in January, first proposed the republican presidency that became the basis of the new constitution.