1870

1870
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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873

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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
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Year 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1870
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

Events of 1870

January - March

January 1
- First edition of The Northern Echo newspaper published.
- Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
January 3 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
January 6 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
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 - Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union.
January 27 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University.
February - Vrain Denis-Lucas in sentenced for two years in prison for multiple forgery in Paris.
February 1 - Goodna State School in Goodna, Queensland, Australia is founded.
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.
- The YWCA is founded in 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 4 - Thomas Scott is executed by Louis Riel's provisional government during the Red River Rebellion in modern day Manitoba Canada.
March 19 - Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later The Ohio State University.
March 24 - Syracuse University is established and officially opens.
March 30
- The 15th Amendment is entered into the United States Constitution, giving blacks the right to vote.
- Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
March 31 - Thomas Mundy Peterson the first African-American to vote in an election.

April - June

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.
June 9 - The author and actor Charles Dickens dies after suffering from a stroke. The inscription on his tomb reads: "He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world."
June 22 - The U.S. Congress creates the Department of Justice.
June 26
- Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre is first performed at Munich's National Theatre.

July - September

July 13 - The Ems Dispatch serves as a reason for a war between Prussia and France.
July 15 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, and the CSA is dissoluted.
July 16 - Lambert McKenna is born, Irish scholar.
July 19 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
August 8 - The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
August 24 - The Red River Rebellion ends with the arrival of the Wolseley Expedition and the fleeing of Louis Riel.
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, becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally since 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 - December

October 2 - Referendum in Rome supports joining 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 Generales proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as King Amadeus I of Spain.
December 30 - Assassination of Juan Prim, Prime minister of Spain.

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**1870 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1870 MDCCCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2623
Armenian calendar	1319 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԹ
Bahá'í calendar	26 – 27
Berber calendar	2820
Buddhist calendar	2414
Burmese calendar	1232
Chinese calendar	4506/4566-11-30 (己巳年十一月三十日) — to — 4507/4567-11-10 (庚午年十一月初十日)
Coptic calendar	1586 – 1587
Ethiopian calendar	1862 – 1863
Hebrew calendar	5630 – 5631
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1925 – 1926
- Shaka Samvat	1792 – 1793
- Kali Yuga	4971 – 4972
Holocene calendar	11870
Iranian calendar	1248 – 1249
Islamic calendar	1286 – 1287
Japanese calendar	Meiji 3 (明治3年)
Korean calendar	4203
Thai solar calendar	2413
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