Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a British composer and conductor. He was particularly known for his three cantatas on the epic 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadswort…
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English pianist, violinist, and composer (died 1912)
Katharine Dexter McCormick was an American suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of…
Katharine McCormick, American biologist, philanthropist, and activist (died 1967)
Trinley Gyatso also spelled: Thinle Gyatso was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
12th Dalai Lama (born 1857)
Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. He was a man of talent and accomplishment, but his love of self-promotion and refus…
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (born 1766)
John Cabell Breckinridge was an American politician who served as the 14th vice president of the United States, with President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861, and as a general i…
John C
Rosa May Billinghurst was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was known popularly as the "cripple suffragette" as she campaigned in a tricycle.
Rosa May Billinghurst, "cripple suffragette" (sic)
Józef Kremer was a Polish historian of art, philosopher, aesthetician and psychologist.
Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (born 1806)
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Car…
Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (born 1838)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk…
Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (born 1804)
Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (born 1795)
Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapp…
Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (born 1810)
Antoine-Louis Barye was a Romantic French sculptor most famous for his work as an animalier, a sculptor of animals. His son and student was the sculptor Alfred Barye.
Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (born 1796)
Ferdinand I was Emperor of Austria from March 1835 until his abdication in December 1848. He was also King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, King of Lombardy–Venetia and holder of …
Ferdinand I of Austria (born 1793)
Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of …
Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (born 1811)
Aleksander Kunileid, was an Estonian composer. He is one of the founding figures of Estonian choral music.
Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (born 1845)
George Edward Pickett was an American military officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for being one …
George Pickett, American general (born 1825)
Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. The 16th vice president, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lin…
Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (born 1808)
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1805)
Karl Andree was a German geographer, publicist and consul.
Karl Andree, German geographer and journalist (born 1808)
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek was a German linguist who lived in the Cape Colony and developed a particular interest for the languages and culture of the San peoples. He is the a…
Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (born 1827)
William Chapman Ralston was a San Francisco businessman and financier, and the founder of the Bank of California.
William Chapman Ralston, American businessman and financier, founded the Bank of California (born 1826)
The Minute Man is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, located in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. It was created between 1871 a…
The Minute Man was unveiled as part of the centennial celebration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
Captain Matthew Webb was an English seaman, swimmer and stuntman who became the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids. Webb increased the popu…
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
The Metre Convention, also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations: Argentina, Austria…
Representatives from seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention, which set up an institute for the purpose of coord