Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
George Joseph Thompson was the mainstay of the Northamptonshire county cricket eleven for a long period encompassing both its days as a minor county and its earliest years in the C…
George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (died 1943)
Joe Edward "Old Wagon Tongue" Adams was an American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager. He was also known as "Old Wagon Tongue."
Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (died 1952)
Narcisa Buencamino vda. de León was a Filipino film producer and businesswoman.
Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (died 1966)
Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets and scored 2,325 runs, becoming…
Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (died 1973)
Hugo Celmiņš was a Latvian politician, a public employee, agronomist, twice the Prime Minister of Latvia. Arrested and deported to the USSR after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in…
Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (died 1941)
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)
Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He …
Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1801)
Konstantinos Kanaris, also anglicised as Constantine Kanaris or Canaris, was a Greek statesman, an admiral, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829).
Konstantinos Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1793)
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the…
Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (born 1797)
Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band and one of the most renowned Native American figures of the nineteenth century. Known for his commitment to defending Lakota …
Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (born 1849)
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of t…
Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (born 1800)
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptun…
Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1811)
Hermann Günther Grassmann was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mathema…
Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (born 1809)
James Roosevelt Bayley was an American Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Newark from 1853 to 1872 and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1872 to 1877.
James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop (born 1814)
José María Rómulo Díaz de la Vega Fuentes was a Mexican military officer and politician. As commander of the garrison in Mexico City, he was the de facto president of Mexico in 185…
Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1800)
Théodore Barrière, French playwright, was born in Paris.
Théodore Barrière, French playwright (born 1823)
Robert Swinhoe FRS was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Qing-era Taiwan. He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasa…
Robert Swinhoe, English ornithologist and entomologist (born 1835)
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general, noted for his aggressive cavalry tactics and rapid rise from private to general during the American Civil War. After the war, Forr…
Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (born 1821)
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