1870

Years: 1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1870 in art 1870 in literature 1870 in music 1870 in science 1870 in sports 1870 in Canada List of state leaders in 1870 List of religious leaders in 1870

Events

• 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 2 - Francisco Solano Lopez' last troops cornered by Triple Alliance troops at Cerro Cora. Lopez refuses to surrender and is killed. Fighting ends in Paraguay - the War of the Triple Alliance is over
• March 30 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
• April 11 - Irish peer Lord Muncaster and his entourage kidnapped in Greece
• 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 13 - The Emser Depesche serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France
• 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. Empress Eugenie flees to England with her children.
• September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed. End of the temporal power of Papacy.
• October 2 – Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy
• 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.
• December – Assassination of Juan Prim, Prime minister of Spain

• Franco-Prussian War

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)
• March 20 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
• April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
• April 30 - Franz Lehár, 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 Novák, composer (d. 1949)
• December 18 - Saki, writer (d. 1918)

Deaths

• February 11 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
• February 11 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
• February 19 - Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower
• 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 (b. 1807)
• November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer
• November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, Impressionist painter
• December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author
• December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator.
• Henry Rowe - Gothic architect