1870

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Heads of State

Events

Franco-Prussian War
January 6 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
January 10 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
January 15 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
January 26 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
January 27 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University
February 2 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
February 3 - The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed
February 10 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
February 10 - The YWCA is founded (New York City)
February 12 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
February 23 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
February 25 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the United States Congress
February 26 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.
March 30 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
May 12 - The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion
May 14 - First rugby match to be played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.
July 15 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
July 19 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
September 2 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
September 4 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed. End of the temporal power of Papacy.
November 1 - In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".
November 16 - Spanish Cortes proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as king Amadeus I of Spain.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

Births

January 8 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
January 15 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
February 7 - Alfred Adler, psychologist
March 5 - Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)
March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)
April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
April 30 - Franz LehÃÂÃÂ¡r, composer (d. 1948)
May 19 - Albert Fish, serial killer
July 3 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
July 12 - Louis II of Monaco
July 29 - George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion in any weight class.
August 31 - Maria Montessori, educator
September 26 - King Christian X of Denmark
November 21 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official
December 5 - Vitezslav NovÃÂÃÂ¡k, composer (d. 1949)

Deaths

February 11 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
February 11 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer.
March 28 - George Henry Thomas, American general
June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
July 20 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
October 12 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.
December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator.
December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, pÃÂÃÂ¨re, author
November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
Henry Rowe - Gothic architect

Heads of State

China - TÃÂÃÂ³ngzhÃÂÃÂ¬ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1861-1875)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France - Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1852-1870)
Holy See - Pope Pius IX, Bishop of Rome (1846-1878)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Charles IV, King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
Ottoman Empire - Abd-ul-Aziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1861-1876)
Prussia - Wilhelm I, King of Prussia (1861-1871)
Russia - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1855-1881)
Spain -
1. Juan Prim, Prime Minister of Spain (1868-1870)
2. Amadeus I, King of Spain (1870-1873)
United States - Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States (1869-1877)