Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
Margarete Ulrike Augusta Marie Karoline Elsa Reger was a German writer, the wife of the pianist and composer Max Reger, whose memory she kept alive by founding an archive, the Max-…
Elsa Reger, German writer (died 1951)
David Harrison Macon, known professionally as Uncle Dave Macon, was an American old-time banjo player, singer, songwriter, and comedian. Known as "The Dixie Dewdrop", Macon was kno…
Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (died 1952)
Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of Notre-Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death. As a composer, much of his output was organ musi…
Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (died 1937)
Albert Jay Nock was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Nation and then The Freeman, educational theorist, Georgist, and social critic of the early and middle 20th …
Albert Jay Nock, American theorist, author, and critic (died 1945)
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in …
D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar (died 1966)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer. He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the artistry with which he carried…
Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
Thomas Cooke was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières from 1852 to 1870.
Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1792)
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist …
Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812)
Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil…
Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (born 1830)
David Heaton was an American attorney and politician, a U.S. representative from North Carolina. He earlier was elected to the state senates of Ohio and Minnesota.
David Heaton, American lawyer and politician (born 1823)
Armand Barbès was a French Republican revolutionary and an opponent of the July Monarchy (1830–1848).
Armand Barbès, French lawyer and politician (born 1809)
John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery.
John A. Dahlgren, American admiral (born 1809)
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål.
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet and journalist (born 1818)
David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Nav…
David Farragut, American admiral (born 1801)
Pedro Felipe Figueredo, mostly known as Perucho, was a Cuban poet, musician, and freedom fighter of the 19th century. In the 1860s, he was active in the planning of the Cuban upris…
Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (born 1818)
Ma Xinyi, courtesy name Gushan (穀山), art names Yanmen (燕門) and Tiefang (鐵舫), posthumous name Duanmin (端敏), was a Chinese Muslim official and military general of the Qing dynasty of…
Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (born 1821)
Eleanora Atherton was an English philanthropist and heiress associated with Manchester during the late Georgian and Victorian periods. She funded churches, schools, hospitals, and …
Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (born 1782)
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857).
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (born 1836)
Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and his…
Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist and historian (born 1803)
Robert Edward Lee was a Confederate general whose early actions in the American Civil War led to his appointment as the overall commander of the Confederate States Army near the en…
Robert E. Lee, American general (born 1807)
Michael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best remembered for his operas, especially The Bohemian Girl.
Michael William Balfe, Irish violinist and composer (born 1808)
Rupert's Land, or Prince Rupert's Land, was a territory in British America based on the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The right to "sole trade and commerce" over Rupert's Land was gra…
Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
The Tower Subway is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in central London, between Tower Hill on the north bank of the river and Vine Lane on the south. In 1869 a 1,340-foot-long (41…
One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath…
The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between France and the North German Con…
Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, which led to the collapse of the…