designated Indian reservations in Oklahoma. October–December October 9 – The Treaty of Bern establishes the General Postal Union, to coordinate the exchange of international mail. October 19 – The modern University of Zagreb is founded. October 31 – The Quebra-Quilos Revolt starts in Paraíba, Empire of Brazil. November 2 – The first issue of Japanese-language newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun is published in Tokyo, Japan. November 4 – Democrats gain control of the United States House of Representatives for the first time since 1860. November 6 – The University of Adelaide is founded. November 7 – Harper's Weekly publishes a cartoon by Thomas Nast which is the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party in the United States. November 9 – The New York Zoo hoax, a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo, is perpetrated on the public. November 10 – John Ernst Worrell Keely demonstrates his "induction resonance motion motor", a perpetual motion machine, which eventually turns out to be a fraud. 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 16 – Premiere of Alfred Cellier's comic opera The Sultan of Mocha at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester. November 18 – Sailing ship Cospatrick carrying emigrants from England bound for New Zealand, catches fire and sinks in the South Atlantic with the loss of all but three of the 472 persons on board. 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 1 – Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule from Denmark. December 29 – General Martínez and Brigadier General Luís Daban stage a pronunciamento at Sagunto, and proclaim Isabel's son Alfonso as King of Spain. Subsequently, the Madrid garrison follows suit, and the First Spanish Republic comes to an end. Date unknown The Agra Canal opens in India. St. Nicholas' Church, Hamburg, designed by English architect George Gilbert Scott, is completed. Its -tall spire makes it (briefly, and by 5m) the world's tallest building (a title held since 1647 by Strasbourg Cathedral). The House of Keys, lower house of the Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man, moves from Castletown to Douglas. Charles Taze Russell and the Bible Student movement claim this year