Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Ralph McKittrick was an American golfer and tennis player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (died 1923)
István Medgyaszay was a Hungarian architect and writer. He was one of the first to employ Hungarian folk idioms, particularly from Transylvania, and combine them with influences ra…
István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and academic (died 1959)
Joshua Lionel Cowen was an American inventor and cofounder of the Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains who gained prominence in the market before an…
Joshua Lionel Cowen, American businessman, co-founded the Lionel Corporation (died 1965)
Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in a…
Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (died 1910)
Ernst Wetter was a Swiss politician.
Ernst Wetter, Swiss lawyer and politician, 48th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1963)
James Pugh Kirkwood was a 19th-century American civil engineer, and general superintendent of the Erie Railroad in the year 1849–1850. He left the Erie to go to the southwest to co…
James P
Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet. He wrote exclusively in Swedish. He is considered a national poet of Finland. He is the author of the lyrics to Vår…
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (born 1804)
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist, and publisher. He is best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart and originating the 'KV-numbe…
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (born 1800)
Mary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable …
Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (born 1807)
William Butler Ogden was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." He was, at one time, …
William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
Robert Williams, usually referred to by his bardic name Trebor Mai, was a Welsh language poet, born at Ty'n-yr-ardd near Llanrhychwyn, near Llanrwst, in the old county of Caernarfo…
Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (born 1830)
The 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May. It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. Other estimates of its magnitude have been as high…
An earthquake struck northern Chile, leading to the deaths of 2,385 people, mostly victims of the ensuing tsunami, as fa
The 1877 Wimbledon Championship was a men's tennis tournament held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London. It was the world's first official lawn tenn…
The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis tournament, began in London.
Pittsburgh is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to …
Much of central Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was burned and looted during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict in 1877 in the Western United States that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of …
Nez Perce War: Both the Nez Perce and the United States Army suffered numerous casualties at the Battle of the Big…
Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other…
American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos,…
The April Uprising was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The rebellion was suppressed by irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk unit…
The April Uprising begins
The April Uprising was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The rebellion was suppressed by irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk unit…
The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria
The Catalpa rescue was the escape, on 17–19 April 1876, of six Irish Fenian prisoners from the Convict Establishment, a British penal colony in Western Australia. They were taken o…
Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United Sta…
The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia
The Centennial International Exhibition, officially the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and Products of the Soil and Mine, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, f…
The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia
Abdulaziz was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his bro…
Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V
The Ems Ukaz or Ems Ukase, was an internal decree (ukaz) of Emperor Alexander II of Russia issued on 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1876 banning the use of the Ukrainian language in print ex…
The secret decree of Ems Ukaz, issued by Russian Tsar Alexander II in the German city of Bad Ems, was aimed at stopping
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures…
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.