Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 194…
Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (died 1951)
Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in a…
Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (died 1945)
Wesley Clair Mitchell was an American economist known for his empirical work on business cycles and for guiding the National Bureau of Economic Research in its first decades.
Wesley Clair Mitchell, American economist and academic (died 1948)
James Shaver Charleston Woodsworth was a Canadian Methodist minister, politician, and labour activist. He was a pioneer of the Canadian Social Gospel, a Christian religious movemen…
J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian minister and politician (died 1942)
Horace Thomas Rawlins was an English professional golfer who won the first U.S. Open Championship at Newport Country Club in October 1895.
Horace Rawlins, English golfer (died 1935)
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such ph…
Charles Fort, American author (died 1932)
Albert Henry Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield,, born Albert Henry Knattriess, was a British-American businessman who was managing director, then chairman of the Underground Electric Rai…
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, President of the Board of Trade (died 1948)
Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia was a French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100.
Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (died 1947)
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the third United States secretary of …
Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist, and politician. He served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and later as the authoritarian head of st…
Antanas Smetona, Lithuanian jurist and politician, President of Lithuania (died 1944)
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg was a German noblewoman. She was a princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and a Princess of Anhalt by marriage.
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (died 1953)
Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent Ger…
Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (died 1928)
Zona Gale, also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for …
Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1938)
Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one p…
Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
Alexander Hamilton Bailey was an American politician, a United States representative and judge from New York.
Alexander H
Cochise was the leader of the Chiricahui local group of the Chokonen and principal nantan of the Chokonen band of a Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he l…
Cochise, American tribal chief (born 1805)
Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology. …
Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (born 1838)
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (born 1814)
Howard Staunton was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles…
Howard Staunton, English chess player (born 1810)
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the modern province of Parma, to a family of moderat…
Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem was first performed in the San Marco church in Milan to commemorate the first anniversary of Al
The Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first commercially successful typewriter. Principally designed by the American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, it was developed with t…
The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the…
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian…
The Chicago Fire of 1874 took place on July 14. Reports of the extent of the damage vary somewhat, but sources generally agree that the fire burned 47 acres (19 ha) just south of t…
A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and…
Patrick Francis Healy was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's…
Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American…