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1870
Events
* Franco-Prussian War
* January 10 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
* January 15 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the
United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a
Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
* January 26 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
* January 27 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at
DePauw University
* February 2 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just
carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.
* February 3 - The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution is
passed
* February 10 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.
* February 10 - The YWCA is founded (New York City)
* February 12 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.
* February 23 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted
to the Union.
* February 25 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is
sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African
American ever to sit in the United States Congress
* February 26 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.
* March 30 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
* May 12 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada.
* May 14 - First rugby match to be played in New Zealand, between the
Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.
* July 15 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate
states to be readmitted to the Union.
* July 19 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
* September 2 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces
defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of
his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
* September 4 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third
Republic is declared.
* September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia,
the unification of Italy is completed. End of the temporal power of
Papacy.
* November 16 - Spanish Cortes proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as king Amadeus
I of Spain.
* The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis
Riel's Red River Rebellion.
Births
* January 8 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (+ 1930)
* January 15 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
* February 7 - Alfred Adler, psychologist
* March 5 - Frank Norris, writer (+ 1902)
* March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (+ 1951)
* April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
* April 30 - Franz Lehr, composer (+ 1948)
* May 19 - Albert Fish, serial killer
* July 12 - Louis II of Monaco
* August 31 - Maria Montessori, Famous educator
* September 26 - King Christian X of Denmark
Deaths
* February 11 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs
(1848-1849?).
* February 11 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer.
* March 28 - George Henry Thomas, American general
* June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
* July 20 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
* October 12 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.
* December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator.
* December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, pre, author
* November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
* Henry Rowe - Gothic architect
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