Year
1870 (
MDCCCLXX) was a
common year starting on
Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on
Thursday of the 12-day slower
Julian
calendar).
Events of 1870
January–March
- January 1
- January 3 –
Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge
begins.
- January 6 – The
Musikverein,
Vienna
is inaugurated in Austria-Hungary.
- 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 –
Reconstruction:
Virginia
rejoins the
Union
.
- January 27 – The
first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at
DePauw
University
.
- February – Vrain Denis-Lucas is sentenced to 2 years
in prison for multiple forgery in Paris
.
- February 1 –
Goodna State School in Goodna
, Queensland
, Australia is
founded.
- February 2 – It is revealed that the
famed Cardiff Giant is just carved
gypsum and not the petrified remains of a
human.
- February 3 – The 15th Amendment
to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing
African-Americans the right to vote, is passed.
- February 10
- 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 Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi
, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the
first African American ever to sit
in the U.S.
Congress.
- February 26 – In New York City, the
first pneumatic subway is opened.
- February 28 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by
decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the
Ottoman Empire.
- March 1 – Marshal Francisco
Solano López' last troops are cornered by Triple Alliance troops at
Cerro Cora. López refuses to
surrender and is killed. Fighting ends in Paraguay
– the War of
the Triple Alliance is over.
- March 4 – Thomas Scott is executed by
Louis Riel's provisional government
during the Red River Rebellion
in modern day Manitoba
Canada
.
- March 5 – First ever international Association
Football match between England and Scotland at the Oval
, London. Organised by the Football Association.
- March 19 – The Ohio
Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio
Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State
University
.
- March 24 – Syracuse
University
is established and officially opens.
- March 30
- March 31 – Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first
African-American to vote in an election.
April–June
July–September
October–December
Undated
Births
January–June
- January 2 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, graphic
artist, and poet (d. 1938)
- January 3 – Heraldo Blasky, Invented Dildo,
american.
- January 6 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany
(d. 1944)
- January 8 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of
Spain (d. 1930)
- January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder,
American sculptor (d. 1945)
- February 7 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (d.
1937)
- February 12 – Marie Lloyd, English singer (d. 1922)
- March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet,
author and artist (d. 1944)
- March 5
- March 13 – Seale Harris, American Physician (d. 1957)
- March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe, English entomologist
(d. 1951)
- March 20 – Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck,
German general (d. 1964)
- April 1 – Hamaguchi Osachi, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1931)
- April 4 – George Albert Smith, president of
The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1951)
- April 17 – Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist
and author (d. 1946)
- April 22 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and
first Premier of the
Soviet
Union
(d. 1924)
- April 30 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (d. 1948)
- May 9 – Harry
Vardon, English Golf Professional (d. 1937)
- May 19 – Albert
Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
- June 13 – Jules
Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (d. 1961)
- June 20 – Georges Dufrénoy, French
post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943)
July–December
- July 3 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh
Prime Minister of Canada
(d. 1947)
- July 12 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (d.
1949)
- July 16 – Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
- July 25 – Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d.
1966)
- July 27 – Hilaire Belloc, French/English man of letters
(d. 1953)
- July 29 – George Dixon, Canadian boxer (d.
1909)
- August 3 – Carrie Ingalls, younger sister of author
Laura Ingalls Wilder (d.
1946)
- August 4 – Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
- August 11 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d.
1912)
- August 22 – Bertram Fletcher Robinson,
journalist, editor and author (d. 1907)
- August 31 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d.
1952)
- September 25 – James A. Hawken, schoolteacher (d. 1964)
- September 26 – King Christian X of Denmark (d. 1947)
- September 30 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1942)
- October 10 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian
writer, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1953)
- November 21 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports
official (d. 1964)
- November 27 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Prime Minister and President of Finland (d. 1956)
- November 28 – Gustavus M. Blech, German-American physician and
surgeon (d. 1949)
- December 5 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech
composer (d. 1949)
- December 10 – Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French
imperial throne (d. 1947)
- December 12 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil
pioneer (d. 1912)
- December 18 – Saki, English writer (d. 1916)
Unknown
- See also :Category: 1870
births.
Deaths
January–June
July–December
- July 20 – Jules Alfred Huot de
Goncourt, French writer and publisher (b. 1830)
- August 17 – Pedro Figueredo, Cuban poet, musician, and
freedom fighter (b. 1818)
- September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author and
explorer (b. 1836)
- September 23 – Prosper Mérimée, French writer (b.
1803)
- October 12 – Robert E. Lee,
American Confederate general (b. 1807)
- November 24 – Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and
writer (b. 1846)
- November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter
(b. 1841)
- December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French
author (b. 1802)
- December 27 – General Prim, Spanish dictator (b. 1814)
- date unknown – Patrick
MacDowell, Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1799)
- See also :Category: 1870
deaths.