Explore 369 historical events from 1870–1879.
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Mi…
Jan Smuts, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1950)
Bernard Alexandre George Edmond de Pourtalès was a Swiss infantry captain and sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Bernard de Pourtalès, Swiss captain and sailor (died 1935)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was a…
Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Sophia of Prussia was Queen of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and again from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922 as the wife of King Constantine I of Greece.
Sophia of Prussia (died 1932)
Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy was a French philosopher and mathematician.
Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1954)
Georges Dufrénoy was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism.
Georges Dufrénoy, French painter and academic (died 1943)
Thomas Cooke was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières from 1852 to 1870.
Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1792)
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist …
Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)
Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil…
Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (born 1830)