Explore 281 historical events from 1870–1879.
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
James Pugh Kirkwood was a 19th-century American civil engineer, and general superintendent of the Erie Railroad in the year 1849–1850. He left the Erie to go to the southwest to co…
James P
Antonio Martín Mariano Carrera Sabat was a Mexican general, senator, and interim president of the country for about a month in 1855. He was a moderate Liberal.
Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1806)
The Camp Grant massacre, on April 30, 1871, was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona, along the San Pedro River.…
The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory
Rugby football is a type of football, a team sport which developed in the nineteenth century in England, and which later split into the modern sports of rugby union and rugby leagu…
The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club
The April Uprising was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The rebellion was suppressed by irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk unit…
The April Uprising begins
The Senate of Finland combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in independent Finland from 1917 to 1918.
The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands
The Catalpa rescue was the escape, on 17–19 April 1876, of six Irish Fenian prisoners from the Convict Establishment, a British penal colony in Western Australia. They were taken o…
Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia
Pierre Gilliard was a Swiss academic and author, best known as the French-language tutor to the five children of Russian emperor Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. In 1921, after the R…
Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (died 1962)
Frederick Conrad Koch was an American biochemist and endocrinologist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Koch graduated from the University of Illinois in 1899. He was affiliated with the …
Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist (died 1948)
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. The university was founded in 1842 by members of the Congregati…
Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the
Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial, also known as Louis-Napoléon, was the only child of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and Empress Eugénie. After his father was dethroned in 187…
Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War
Henri Alexis Tauzin was a French athlete who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and won a silver medal in Athletics at the 1900 Summe…
Henri Tauzin, French hurdler (died 1918)
Korneli Kekelidze was a Soviet and Georgian philologist, scholar of Georgian literature, and one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University where he chaired the Depart…
Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (died 1962)
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from India were transported to labour in various overseas European colonies…
The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas
The War of the Pacific, also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivi…
War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessel
The Russian Empire was the final period of the Russian monarchy, spanning most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Rep…
Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state
Madison Square Garden (1879–1890) was an arena in New York City at the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The first venue to use that name, it se…
Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the publ
Arthur James Robertson was a British runner who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. He won the gold medal in the 3-mile team race and a silver in the steeplechase.
Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner (died 1957)
Alexandre Paul Poiret was a French fashion designer, a master couturier during the first two decades of the 20th century. He was the founder of his namesake haute couture house.
Paul Poiret, French fashion designer (died 1944)
Bernhard Gregory was a Baltic German chess master.
Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (died 1939)
Susanna Bokoyni, also known as "Princess Susanna", was a Hungarian centenarian and circus performer who was listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-lived dwarf on record.
Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer (died 1984)
Alfred Eric Campbell was an English actor. He was a key member of Charlie Chaplin's film ensemble, invariably playing an intimidating bully, and appeared in eleven of Chaplin's fil…
Eric Campbell, British actor (died 1917)
Sir Owen Willans Richardson was a British physicist who received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission and for the discovery of Richardson's law.
Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He was a…
Thomas Beecham, English conductor (died 1961)
Richárd Weisz was a Hungarian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games and at the 1908 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in 1908.
Richárd Weisz, Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (died 1945)
James Francis Byrnes was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as we…
James F
Sir Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman and aviation pioneer. He was one of the three founders of the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, the airli…
Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas (died 1950)
Bedřich Hrozný, also known as Friedrich Hrozny, was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He contributed to the decipherment of the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-E…
Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (died 1952)
Hendrik van Heuckelum, nicknamed Henk, was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward for HBS-Craeyenhout and Royal Léopold Club, and who represented Belgium at the 1900 Summer Oly…
Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (died 1929)
Wesley William Coe Jr., sometimes listed as William Wesley Coe Jr., was an American track and field athlete who competed principally in the shot put and also in the hammer throw, d…
Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (died 1926)
Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian revolutionary, politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People'…
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (died 1926)
Frederick William Englehardt was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and triple jump. He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St …
Fred Englehardt, American jumper (died 1942)
Pierre Gilliard was a Swiss academic and author, best known as the French-language tutor to the five children of Russian emperor Nicholas II from 1905 to 1918. In 1921, after the R…
Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (died 1962)