Explore 369 historical events from 1870–1879.
Hendrik Karel Offerhaus was a Dutch medical doctor and rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which finished third in the …
Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch Olympic rower and head of the Dutch Red Cross (died 1953)
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a longtime president, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors …
Alfred P
Robert S. Garrett was an American athlete, as well as investment banker and philanthropist in Baltimore, Maryland and financier of several important archeological excavations. Garr…
Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (died 1961)
A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.
Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (died 1942)
Jorge Alejandro Newbery Malagarie was an Argentine aviator, civil servant, engineer and scientist. He died in an airplane crash on 1 March 1914, at the age of 38.
Jorge Newbery, Argentine aviator (died 1914)
Giovanni Gentile was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician.
Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher and academic (died 1944)
Rosa May Billinghurst was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was known popularly as the "cripple suffragette" as she campaigned in a tricycle.
Rosa May Billinghurst, British suffragette and women's rights activist (died 1953)
Charles Stewart Mott was an American industrialist and businessman, philanthropist, a co-owner of General Motors, and the 50th and 55th mayor of Flint, Michigan.
Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan (died 1973)
Sir Henry Hallett Dale was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he s…
Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
Paul Neumann was an Austrian swimmer and physician, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the first ever Austrian gold medalist.
Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and medical doctor (died 1932)
Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic…
Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, was a Norwegian skier and supercentenarian. He was the world's oldest verified living man from the death of 111-year-old Joe Thomas of the Unit…
Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (died 1987)
Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creat…
Reginald Punnett, English geneticist, statistician, and academic (died 1967)
Trinley Gyatso also spelled: Thinle Gyatso was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
12th Dalai Lama (born 1857)
Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. He was a man of talent and accomplishment, but his love of self-promotion and refus…
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (born 1766)
John Cabell Breckinridge was an American politician who served as the 14th vice president of the United States, with President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861, and as a general i…
John C
Rosa May Billinghurst was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was known popularly as the "cripple suffragette" as she campaigned in a tricycle.
Rosa May Billinghurst, "cripple suffragette" (sic)
Józef Kremer was a Polish historian of art, philosopher, aesthetician and psychologist.
Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (born 1806)
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Car…
Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (born 1838)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk…
Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (born 1804)
Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.
Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (born 1795)
Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapp…
Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (born 1810)
The Minute Man is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, located in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. It was created between 1871 a…
The Minute Man was unveiled as part of the centennial celebration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Metre Convention, also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations: Argentina, Austria…
Representatives from seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention, which set up an institute for the purpose of coord