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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Years:'''1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:'''
1840s 1850s 1860s - '''1870s''' - 1880s 1890s 1900s |- | align="center" | '''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, pčre, author *December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator. *Henry Rowe - Gothic architectaf:1870 bg:1870 ca:1870 cy:1870 da:1870 de:1870 et:1870 el:1870 es:1870 eo:1870 eu:1870 fr:1870 fy:1870 hr:1870 it:1870 he:1870 la:1870 nl:1870 no:1870 pl:1870 ro:1870 ru:1870 sl:1870 fi:1870 sv:1870 uk:1870 zh:1870年 simple:1870 wa:1870
