Explore 883 historical events from 1870–1879.
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet…
Felix Dzerzhinsky, Polish-Russian academic and politician (died 1926)
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Roy…
James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1946)
Wilhelm Filchner was a German army officer, scientist and explorer. He conducted several surveys and scientific investigations in China, Tibet and surrounding regions, and led the …
Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (died 1957)
Yente Serdatzky was a Russian-born American Yiddish-language writer of short fiction and plays, active in New York City.
Yente Serdatzky, Lithuanian-American author and playwright (died 1962)
James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardia…
James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic (died 1947)
Stanley Phillip Lord was a British merchant seaman who was captain of the SS Californian on the night the RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912. The ship, which was primarily a freight…
Stanley Lord, English captain (died 1962)
Jakob Ehrlich was an early Zionist and leader of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria. Ehrlich represented the city's 180,000 Jewish citizens in the city government before World…
Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian politician (died 1938)
Jacob Schick was an American military officer, inventor, and entrepreneur who patented an early electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company.
Jacob Schick, American-Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Schick Razors (died 1937)
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
Johan Ludvig Runeberg was a Finnish priest, lyric and epic poet. He wrote exclusively in Swedish. He is considered a national poet of Finland. He is the author of the lyrics to Vår…
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (born 1804)
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel was an Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist, and publisher. He is best known for cataloguing the works of Mozart and originating the 'KV-numbe…
Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian botanist, composer, and publisher (born 1800)
Mary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable …
Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (born 1807)
Konstantinos Kanaris, also anglicised as Constantine Kanaris or Canaris, was a Greek statesman, an admiral, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829).
Konstantinos Kanaris, Greek admiral and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1793)
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the…
Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (born 1797)
William Butler Ogden was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." He was, at one time, …
William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
Robert Williams, usually referred to by his bardic name Trebor Mai, was a Welsh language poet, born at Ty'n-yr-ardd near Llanrhychwyn, near Llanrwst, in the old county of Caernarfo…
Robert Williams (known as Trebor Mai), Welsh poet (born 1830)
Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He …
Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1801)
Crazy Horse was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band and one of the most renowned Native American figures of the nineteenth century. Known for his commitment to defending Lakota …
Crazy Horse, American tribal leader (born 1849)
William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of t…
Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer, developed the Calotype Process (born 1800)
The 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May. It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. Other estimates of its magnitude have been as high…
An earthquake struck northern Chile, leading to the deaths of 2,385 people, mostly victims of the ensuing tsunami, as fa
The 1877 Wimbledon Championship was a men's tennis tournament held at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London. It was the world's first official lawn tenn…
The inaugural Wimbledon Championship, the world's oldest tennis tournament, began in London.
Pittsburgh is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to …
Much of central Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was burned and looted during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict in 1877 in the Western United States that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of …
Nez Perce War: Both the Nez Perce and the United States Army suffered numerous casualties at the Battle of the Big…
Asaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other…
American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos,…