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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Events

• Franco-Prussian War
• 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 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada.
• May 14 - First rugby match to be played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.
• September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed. End of the temporal power of Papacy.
• November 16 - Spanish Cortes proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as king Amadeus I of Spain.
• The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Northwest Rebellion[?].

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1870 in literature:

Births

• January 8 - Miguel Primo de Rivera[?], dictator of Spain (+ 1930)
• January 15 - Pierre S. DuPont[?], industrialist
• March 5 - Frank Norris, writer (+ 1902)
• April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
• May 19 - Albert Fish, serial killer
• July 12 - Louis II of Monaco
• August 31 - Maria Montessori, Famous educator
• September 26 - King Christian X of Denmark

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, pere[?], author
• November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
• Henry Rowe[?] - Gothic architect

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