Notable Historical Events - 1870
1870 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883 |
Jan 6 |
The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna). |
Jan 8 |
US mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins |
Jan 10 |
Georgia legislature reconvenes |
Jan 10 |
John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil |
Jan 15 |
Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly |
Jan 16 |
Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War |
Jan 20 |
"City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard |
Jan 20 |
Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis |
Jan 23 |
173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army |
Jan 25 |
Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows |
Jan 26 |
Virginia rejoins US |
Jan 27 |
1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana) |
Jan 27 |
After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union |
Jan 27 |
Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated |
Feb 2 |
Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum |
Feb 3 |
US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races & colour |
Feb 5 |
1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia |
Feb 9 |
US Army establishes US National Weather Service |
Feb 10 |
City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time) |
Feb 10 |
YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC) |
Feb 12 |
Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada |
Feb 15 |
Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn |
Feb 17 |
Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge |
Feb 17 |
Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War |
Feb 23 |
Mississippi is readmitted to US |
Feb 25 |
Hiram R. Revels, is sworn in as 1st black member of Congress (Sen-R-MS) |
Feb 26 |
1st NYC subway line opens (pneumatic powered) |
Feb 28 |
The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. |
Mar 4 |
On command of Louis Riel, Thomas Scott is executed by a firing squad. Riel rejects all appeals and requests to intervene in an attempt to demonstrate to the Canadian government that the Metis must be taken seriously |
Mar 7 |
Cin Red Stockings, 1st pro BB team, begin 8-mo tour of Midwest & East |
Mar 14 |
California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible |
Mar 17 |
Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary |
Mar 18 |
1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California) |
Mar 19 |
The opera "Guarany" premieres in Milan |
Mar 30 |
15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race |
Mar 30 |
Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union |
Mar 30 |
Florida territorial government established. |
Mar 31 |
1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ) |
Apr 4 |
Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800 |
Apr 9 |
American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves |
Apr 13 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC |
Apr 15 |
Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada |
Apr 16 |
Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London |
Apr 27 |
Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi |
May 10 |
Jem Mace & defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr & 17 minutes, & neither is struck by a punch |
May 12 |
Manitoba becomes a province of Canada |
May 20 |
Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament abolishes capital punishment in The Netherlands |
May 24 |
Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US |
May 25 |
Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec |
May 31 |
Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) |
May 31 |
E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement |
Jun 4 |
4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59.5 |
Jun 5 |
Constantinople fire; 900 die |
Jun 9 |
Washington: Pres Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud |
Jun 11 |
1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam |
Jun 14 |
All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games |
Jun 22 |
1st Boardwalk in America invented |
Jun 22 |
US Congress creates Department of Justice |
Jun 25 |
Opera "Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)" is produced (Munich) |
Jun 26 |
1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens |
Jun 26 |
Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich |
Jun 26 |
The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. |
Jun 30 |
Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate |
Jul 1 |
James W Smith of SC is one of 1st African Americans to enter West Point |
Jul 2 |
Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium. |
Jul 8 |
US Congress authorizes registration of trademarks |
Jul 8 |
Gov Holden of NC declares Casswell County in a state of insurrection |
Jul 13 |
King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depeche" on Bismarck |
Jul 14 |
The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year |
Jul 15 |
Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US |
Jul 15 |
Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created |
Jul 15 |
Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada |
Jul 18 |
Pontifical infalliability proclaimed |
Jul 19 |
France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins |
Jul 23 |
Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France |
Jul 24 |
1st trans-US rail service begins |
Jul 30 |
Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 |
Jul 30 |
The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics |
Aug 1 |
Irish Land Act gives rights to tenants of landlords in Ireland. |
Aug 2 |
Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London. |
Aug 4 |
British Red Cross Society forms |
Aug 6 |
Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France |
Aug 6 |
White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tennessee legislature |
Aug 8 |
Magic (US) defeats Cambria (England) in 2nd running of America's Cup |
Aug 8 |
The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. |
Aug 15 |
Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado |
Aug 16 |
Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion |
Aug 17 |
1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington |
Aug 17 |
Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st US woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming) |
Aug 18 |
Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32,000 casualties |
Aug 24 |
The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. |
Sep 1 |
Napoleon III captured at Sedan |
Sep 2 |
Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies |
Sep 4 |
The Third French Republic proclaimed as French overthrow Emperor Napoleon III (who ironically was the elected president of the Second French Republic) after his defeat by Prussia at Sedan |
Sep 6 |
Ship sinks in Gulf of Biscay; 483 die |
Sep 8 |
Netherlands & Britain sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname |
Sep 10 |
Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms |
Sep 15 |
Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18) |
Sep 19 |
Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871) |
Sep 20 |
Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French |
Sep 20 |
Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury |
Sep 20 |
Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel |
Oct 2 |
Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital |
Oct 7 |
Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon |
Oct 9 |
Rome is incorporated into Italy by royal decree |
Oct 13 |
Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert |
Oct 19 |
1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives |
Oct 19 |
British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives |
Oct 25 |
Pimlico Race Course opens in Baltimore |
Oct 25 |
Postcards first used in USA |
Nov 1 |
US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations) |
Nov 8 |
Democratic governor elected in Tennessee |
Nov 15 |
Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union |
Nov 16 |
Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I |
Nov 27 |
NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game" |
Nov 29 |
Compulsory education proclaimed in England |
Dec 6 |
Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC) |
Dec 12 |
Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps |
Dec 22 |
Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse |
Dec 26 |
The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. |
Dec 31 |
J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done) |
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