Explore 883 historical events from 1870–1879.
The sultans of the Ottoman Empire, who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty, ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 19…
Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother, Abdul Hamid II.
Northfield is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. A small portion lies in the adjacent Dakota County. The population was 20,790 at the 2020 census. Northfield is 40 mi…
In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by…
Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist and politician. He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he dis…
Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (died 1937)
Ludvig Karsten was a Norwegian painter. He was a neo-impressionist influenced by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse and contemporary French painting. He first participated at the Autumn e…
Ludvig Karsten, Norwegian painter (died 1926)
Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner …
Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (died 1918)
Hermann Müller was a German Social Democratic politician who served as foreign minister (1919–1920) and was twice chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (died 1931)
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)
Julius Klinger was an Austrian painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial graphic artist, typographer and writer. Klinger studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum HTL in Vienn…
Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1942)
Percival Albert Perrin, known as either "Percy" or "Peter", was an English cricketer, who played for Essex as a right-handed middle-order batsman for more than thirty years from 18…
Percy Perrin, English cricketer (died 1945)
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski was a Polish writer, explorer, university professor, and anticommunist political activist. He is known for his books about Lenin and the Russian Civil …
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (died 1945)
Sir William Arthur Stanier was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
William Stanier, English engineer (died 1965)
Isaac Heinemann was an Israeli rabbinical scholar and a professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology.
Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (died 1957)
Pierre Alexandre Tuffèri, also spelt Tuffère, was a French-Greek athlete, although he was born and lived in Athens, his father was French. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics a…
Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (died 1958)
Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Co…
Alfred L
William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who worked for Guinness. In statistics, he pioneered small-sample experimental design. Gosset published under t…
William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (died 1937)
William John Carr was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.
William Carr, American rower (died 1942)
Edward Anthony Spitzka was an American anatomist who autopsied the brain of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of president William McKinley.
Edward Anthony Spitzka, American anatomist and author (died 1922)
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the …
Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (died 1941)
Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Dutch physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium. He also developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interacti…
Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (died 1956)
The Most Reverend Pascual Díaz y Barreto, SJ was a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Mexico City from June 22, 1929 until his death in 1936. Throu…
Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Mexican archbishop (died 1936)
Thomas Joseph Ryan was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1915 to 1919, as leader of the state Labor Party. He resigned to enter federal politics, si…
T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (died 1921)
Harriet Brooks was a Canadian nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research in radioactivity. She discovered atomic recoil, and transmutation of elements in radioactive de…
Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist and academic (died 1933)
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno was a German businessman and politician who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the beginning of th…
Wilhelm Cuno, German businessman and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1933)
Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scien…
Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (died 1957)