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). [edit] Events of 1870 [edit] 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.
[edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Unknown - See also Category: 1870 births.
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June [edit] 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.
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