Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
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)
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)
Albert Marque was a French sculptor and doll maker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (died 1939)
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)
Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the f…
Édouard Herriot, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1957)
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (died 1928)
Frank Arthur Cooper was Premier of Queensland from 1942 to 1946 for the Labor Party.
Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland (died 1949)
Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 400 marches, polkas and waltzes to his name. As most of hi…
Julius Fučík, Czech composer and conductor of military bands (died 1916)
Stanislav Binički was a Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue. A student of German composer Josef Rheinberger, he became the first director of the Opera Sector of the National…
Stanislav Binički, Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue. (died 1942)
Albert-Pierre Sarraut was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic.
Albert Sarraut, French journalist and politician, 106th Prime Minister of France (died 1962)
Eric Alfred Knudsen was an American writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on Kauai, Hawaii. His father was Valdemar Knudsen, a west Kauai sugar plantation…
Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, lawyer, and politician (died 1957)
Princess Clémentine of Belgium was the third daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium, and Marie Henriette of Austria. She was by birth a Princess of Belgium and member of the House …
Princess Clémentine of Belgium (died 1955)
George Evans Stewart was an officer in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Philippine–American War. He later commanded the 339th Infantry R…
George E. Stewart, Australian-American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1946)
Haakon VII was King of Norway from 1905 until his death in 1957, having reigned for nearly 52 years.
Haakon VII of Norway (died 1957)
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, and epidemiologist, founded the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (died 1917)
Archduke Joseph August Viktor Klemens Maria of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia was a prominent member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, who was a Feldmarschall of the Austr…
Archduke Joseph August of Austria (died 1962)
William Manuel "Bill" Johnson was an American jazz musician who played banjo and double bass; he is considered the father of the "slap" style of double bass playing.
William Manuel Johnson, American bassist (died 1972)
Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemis…
Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1942)
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi and nationalist, who is noted for his participation in the movement for India's independence from British rule, he advocated for compl…
Sri Aurobindo, Indian guru, poet, and philosopher (died 1950)
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the eroti…
Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (died 1898)
Tanguturi Prakasam, also known as Prakasam Pantulu, was an Indian jurist, politician, and Gandhian anti-colonial nationalist. During a demonstration against the Simon Commission in…
Tanguturi Prakasam, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Andhra (died 1957)