Explore 369 historical events from 1870–1879.
Francisco "Pancho" Villa was a Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader, and politician. He was a key figure in the Mexican Revolution, which forced out President and dictator Porfi…
Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (died 1923)
Margarito Bautista was a Mexican evangelist and religious founder who wrote and preached for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After converting in 1901, Bautista pre…
Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (died 1961)
Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby.…
Anna Sewell, English author (born 1820)
Ōkubo Toshimichi was a Japanese statesman and samurai of the Satsuma Domain. Regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan, he was one of the "Three Great Nobles" who led th…
Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (born 1830)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and …
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1792)
Robert Stirling was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.
Robert Stirling, Scottish minister and engineer, invented the stirling engine (born 1790)
Crawford Williamson Long was an American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic.
Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (born 1815)
Kikuchi Yōsai , also known as Kikuchi Takeyasu and Kawahara Ryōhei, was a Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures.
Kikuchi Yōsai, Japanese painter (born 1781)
Karl Eduard Nobiling was a German attempted assassin, who in 1878 made an attempt on the life of Emperor Wilhelm I.
Anarchist Karl Nobiling attempted to assassinate German Emperor Wilhelm I
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.
Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops
The Great Mill Disaster, also known as the Washburn A Mill explosion, occurred on May 2, 1878, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The disaster resulted in 18 deaths. The exp…
A dust explosion (depicted) at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths
The Salem witchcraft trial of 1878, also known as the Ipswich witchcraft trial and the second Salem witch trial, was an American civil case held in May 1878 in Salem, Massachusetts…
The last witchcraft trial in the United States opened in Salem, Massachusetts
Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas betw…
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H
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…
The League of Prizren was officially founded to "struggle in arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania"
The Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and a coalition led by the Russian Empire which included Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro. Precipitating …
Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, were initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Conf…
American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army un
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is an all-breed conformation show, held annually in the New York metropolitan area.
At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens
The Battle of White Bird Canyon was fought on June 17, 1877, in Idaho Territory. White Bird Canyon was the opening battle of the Nez Perce War between the Nez Perce Indians and the…
American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the A…
Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Nat…
Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska
Mihail Kogălniceanu was a Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian…
Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania
The 16 May 1877 crisis, or more simply the Seize Mai, was a political crisis and institutional crisis that occurred in France during the Third Republic. It pitted the President of …
The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the
Tsuneo Matsudaira was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as the first President of the House of Councillors from 1947 to 1949. He previously served as Ambassador to the…
Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (died 1949)
Vicente Yap Sotto, Sr. was a Filipino playwright, journalist, and politician who served as a senator from 1946 to 1950. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1922 to …
Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1950)