1870

Years:
1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873

Decades:
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1870 in topic:
Humanities
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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. - UK
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Lists of leaders
Colonial Governors - State leaders
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Births - Deaths

1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar.

Events

Franco-Prussian War
Term "economics" first used, by Alfred Marshall
In England, the Forfeiture Act was passed, abolishing the punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering.
The North Carolina General Assembly forms a county from Currituck, Tyrrell and Hyde counties and names it Dare County in honor of Virginia Dare. The Dare county seat is laid out and named Manteo in honor of Chief Manteo.

February - Vrain Denis-Lucas in sentenced for two years in prison for multiple forgery in Paris
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 Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress
February 26 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.
February 28 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.

March 2 - Francisco Solano López' last troops cornered by Triple Alliance troops at Cerro Cora. López refuses to surrender and is killed. Fighting ends in Paraguay - the War of the Triple Alliance is over
March 30 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.

May 12 - The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion
May 14 - First rugby match to be played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.
May 24 - The Port Adelaide Football Club play their first match of Australian rules football at Buck's Flat, Glanville, South Australia.

July 13 - The Emser Depesche serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France
July 15 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union, and the CSA is dissoluted.
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. Empress Eugenie flees to England with her children.
September 6 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed. End of the last remnant of the Papal States.

October 2 – Referendum in Rome supports joining the Italy with 133681 against 1500. Decision is made official October 6. Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy
October 8 - Leon Michel Gambetta escapes the besieged Paris in a hot-air balloon

November 1 - In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".
November 16 - Spanish Cortes proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as king Amadeus I of Spain.