Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
Kintpuash, also known as Kientpoos, Keintpoos, or by his English name Captain Jack, was a Modoc leader from present-day northern California and southern Oregon. His name in the Mod…
Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. He was right-handed and bowled at a pace that varied from me…
Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (died 1967)
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadsky was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military leader and statesman who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état on 29 …
Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (died 1945)
Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American wireworker and anarchist who assassinated United States president William McKinley in 1901. Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic …
Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (died 1901)
Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassi…
Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (died 1933)
James Edward Hervey MacDonald was an English-born Canadian artist, best known as a member of the Group of Seven who asserted a distinct national identity combined with a common her…
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Hans Berger was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the…
Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (died 1941)
Antti Oskari Tokoi was a Finnish socialist politician who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. Tokoi became Chairman of the Senate of Finland in 1917, and …
Oskari Tokoi, Finnish socialist and the Chairman of the Senate of Finland (died 1963)
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a …
Henri Barbusse, French author and journalist (died 1935)
Dorothy Miller Richardson was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson…
Dorothy Richardson, English author and journalist (died 1957)
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson was a Norwegian artist, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.
Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1958)
Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among othe…
Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (died 1918)
Elena Alistar-Romanescu was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia.
Elena Alistar, Bessarabian politician (died 1955)
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the N…
Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifeti…
Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (died 1942)
Jacques Pellegrin was a French zoologist.
Jacques Pellegrin, French zoologist (died 1944)
Karin Swanström was a Swedish actress, producer and director.
Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (died 1942)
Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda, Italian Diptera and Sout…
Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic (died 1949)
Leo Viktor Frobenius was a German self-taught ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.
Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (died 1938)
Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (Heim…
Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1954)
Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who spent most of his scientific career in the United States. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for …
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1944)
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a fil…
Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968)
Dimitrios E. Maximos was a Greek banker and politician. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Greece after World War II.
Dimitrios Maximos, Greek banker and politician, 140th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1955)
Emmanuel Michel Benner, known as Many Benner, was a French painter. The son of Jean Benner, Many was the nephew of his father's twin brother, also named Emmanuel Benner. All four B…
Many Benner, French painter (died 1965)