Explore 369 historical events from 1870–1879.
The Cyprus Convention of 4 June 1878 was a secret agreement reached between the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire which granted administrative control of Cyprus to Britain, in …
Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title
The League of Prizren, officially the League for the Defense of the Rights of the Albanian Nation, was an Albanian political organization that was officially founded on June 10, 18…
League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a
At the Congress of Berlin, the major European powers revised the territorial and political terms imposed by the Russian Empire on the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of San Stefano, w…
Start of the Congress of Berlin in which the major powers of Europe revise the Treaty of San Stefano, signed on March 3
Rafael Guízar y Valencia was a Mexican bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who was persecuted during the Mexican Revolution. Named Bishop of Xalapa in 1919, he was driven out of hi…
Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (died 1938)
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and i…
Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director (died 1954)
Władysław Witwicki was a Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian and artist. He is seen as one of the fathers of psychology in Poland.
Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (died 194
Konstantinos Parthenis was a Greek painter. Born in Alexandria, part of the Greek community in Egypt, Parthenis broke with the Greek academic tradition of the 19th century and intr…
Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (died 1967)
J. Leslie Wilkinson was an American sports executive who founded the All Nations baseball club in 1912, and the Negro league baseball team Kansas City Monarchs in 1920.
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Johannes Hester Lambertus Terwogt was a Dutch rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower (died 1977)
Alfred Laliberté was a French-Canadian sculptor and painter based in Montreal. His output includes more than 900 sculptures in bronze, marble, wood, and plaster. Many of his sculpt…
Alfred Laliberté, Canadian sculptor and painter (died 1953)
Gustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929…
Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1929)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before movi…
Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer (died 1930)
Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She …
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (died 1972)
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, was an American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid black entertainer in the United States during the first half of th…
Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (died 1949)
Anna Kristina Cervin was a Swedish artist, primarily known for her painting work.
Anna Cervin, Swedish artist (died 1972)
Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tib…
Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (died 1945)
John Edward Masefield, OM was an English poet and writer. He was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967, during which time he lived at Burcot, Oxfordshire, near Abingdon-o…
John Masefield, English author and poet (died 1967)
Samuel Dreben, sometimes misspelled "Drebben" or "Drebin", and known as "The Fighting Jew", was a highly decorated soldier in the US Army and a mercenary who fought in a variety of…
Sam Dreben, American soldier and mercenary (died 1925)
Wallace Henry Hartley was an English violinist, who became best known for his actions during the sinking of the Titanic. The bandleader on the Titanic during its maiden voyage, he …
Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (died 1912)
Evan John Roberts was a Welsh preacher and a leading figure of the 1904–1905 Welsh revival.
Evan Roberts, Welsh Revivalist minister (died 1951)
Henri Léon Thiébaut was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the si…
Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (died 1943)
Margaret Ives Abbott was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (died 1955)
Anselme Payen was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.
Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (born 1795)
Joseph Henry was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promot…
Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (born 1797)