Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Willem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He is known for the de Sitter universe, which is a cosmological model that was named after him.
Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1934)
Hugo Emil Alfvén was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter. Alfvén was one of Sweden's principal composers. His "Swedish Rhapsody”, written when he was 31, is still…
Hugo Alfvén, Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter (died 1960)
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais nicknamed "the President-King", was the president of Portugal, serving in 1918. A Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat he …
Sidónio Pais, Portuguese soldier and politician, 4th President of Portugal (died 1918)
Ahmed Djemal Pasha was an Ottoman general and statesman. Along with Talaat and Enver, he was one of the Three Pashas that ruled the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general (died 1922)
Marcel Israël Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the bo…
Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (died 1950)
Anton Korošec was a Slovene Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator.
Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, tenth Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (died 1940)
Elia Dalla Costa was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal who served as the Archbishop of Florence from 1931 until his death. Dalla Costa served as the Bishop of Padua fr…
Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (died 1961)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He influenced mathematics, logic, set theory, and v…
Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
Marian Smoluchowski was a Polish physicist who worked in the territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics and made significant contributions …
Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer (died 1917)
Alexandra Feodorovna was the last empress of Russia as the consort of Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March…
Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress (died 1918)
Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.
Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (died 1936)
Jan Frans De Boever was a Belgian Symbolist painter, known for his paintings of voluptuous nude women in morbid contexts. Skeletons, death and eroticism flood his oeuvre. He made i…
Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1949)
Thomas N. Heffron was a screenwriter, actor, and a director. He was born in Nevada, He worked as an attorney and danced in vaudeville before he began his career in film with Thanho…
Thomas N
János Szlepecz was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, dean, and writer. He wrote in the Prekmurje Slovene dialect and also in Hungarian.
János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and author (died 1936)
Thomas William Burgess was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel after Matthew Webb, following sixteen attempts. Burgess was British but spent mo…
Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (died 1950)
Theodore Payne, was an English horticulturist, gardener, landscape designer, and botanist. His best known work was done over his adult life in Southern California.
Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (died 1963)
George Lyndon Carpenter was an Australian writer who was the fifth General of The Salvation Army from 1939 to 1946.
George Carpenter, American 5th General of The Salvation Army (died 1948)
Francis Welch Crowninshield was an American journalist and art and theater critic best known for developing and editing the magazine Vanity Fair for 21 years, making it a pre-emine…
Frank Crowninshield, American journalist and art and theatre critic (died 1947)
Heber Doust Curtis was an American astronomer. He participated in 11 expeditions for the study of solar eclipses, and, as an advocate and theorist that additional galaxies existed …
Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (died 1942)
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Ken…
Paul Laurence Dunbar, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1906)
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing th…
Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (died 1936)
William Du Bois Duddell was an English physicist and electrical engineer. His inventions include the moving coil oscillograph, as well as the thermo-ammeter and thermo-galvanometer…
William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (died 1917)
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he served from 1921 to 1923 as the 29th vice preside…
Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (died 1933)
Emil Dominik Josef Hácha was a Czech lawyer, serving as the president of Czechoslovakia from November 1938 to March 1939. In March 1939, after the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Hácha …
Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (died 1945)