1870 - Definition


1870 - Definition

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 topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Rail transport - Science - Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

Contents

1 Events

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 U.S. 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.
June 26 - Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States
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

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