Explore 723 historical events from 1870–1879.
Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subject…
Joseph Severn, English painter (born 1793)
Immanuel Hermann Fichte was a German philosopher and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. In his philosophy, he was a theist and strongly opposed to the Hegelian school.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (born 1797)
The Senate of Finland combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in independent Finland from 1917 to 1918.
The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands
The Universal Postal Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal syste…
Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
Reginald Erskine Foster, nicknamed Tip Foster, commonly designated R. E. Foster in sporting literature, was an English first-class cricketer and footballer. He is the only man to h…
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Emil Edwin "Judge" Fuchs was a German-born American baseball owner and executive.
Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (died 1961)
Demetrios Stephen Petrokokkinos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Greek tennis player (died 1942)
Jean Crotti was a French painter.
Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter (died 1958)
The Hödel assassination attempt, or the assassination attempt on Wilhelm I of 11 May 1878, was an armed attack carried out by Max Hödel, a young German anarchist, against the Kaise…
Hödel assassination attempt by anarchist Max Hödel targeting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I
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 held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of
William G. Merz was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He died in Overland, Missouri.
William Merz, American gymnast and triathlete (died 1946)
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
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 Nobiling assassination attempt, or the assassination attempt on Wilhelm I of 2 June 1878, was an armed attack carried out by Karl Nobiling, a German anarchist philosopher, agai…
Nobiling assassination attempt by anarchist Karl Nobiling targeting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I
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
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)
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)