Explore 570 historical events from 1870–1879.
Jean Collas was a French rugby union player and tug of war competitor, who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the French rugby union team, which won the gold …
Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (died 1928)
Sir John Cameron McPhee, KCMG was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 June 1928 to 15 March 1934.
John McPhee, Australian journalist and politician, 27th Premier of Tasmania (died 1952)
Eugen Fischer was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology,…
Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (died 1967)
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke was the last president of the Reichsgericht, the supreme civil and criminal court of the German Reich, serving from 1929 to 1945. As such, according to th…
Erwin Bumke, German lawyer and jurist (died 1945)
Sergey Timofeyevich Konenkov, also Sergei Konyonkov was a Russian and Soviet sculptor. He was often called "the Russian Rodin".
Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (died 1971)
Abbas Helmy II was the last Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan, ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914, after the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in World War…
Abbas II of Egypt (died 1944)
Crawford Vaughan was an Australian politician, and the Premier of South Australia from 1915 to 1917. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1905 to 1918, re…
Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (died 1947)
Oswald Chambers was an early-20th-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost fo…
Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and author (died 1917)
Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 194…
Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (died 1951)
Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in a…
Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (died 1945)
Alexander Hamilton Bailey was an American politician, a United States representative and judge from New York.
Alexander H
Cochise was the leader of the Chiricahui local group of the Chokonen and principal nantan of the Chokonen band of a Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he l…
Cochise, American tribal chief (born 1805)
James Shaver Charleston Woodsworth was a Canadian Methodist minister, politician, and labour activist. He was a pioneer of the Canadian Social Gospel, a Christian religious movemen…
J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian minister and politician (died 1942)
Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology. …
Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (born 1838)
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.
Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (born 1814)
Howard Staunton was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles…
Howard Staunton, English chess player (born 1810)
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the modern province of Parma, to a family of moderat…
Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem was first performed in the San Marco church in Milan to commemorate the first anniversary of Al
The Sholes and Glidden typewriter was the first commercially successful typewriter. Principally designed by the American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes, it was developed with t…
The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the…
Members of the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Dufferin began their March West, their first journey to the Canadian…
The Chicago Fire of 1874 took place on July 14. Reports of the extent of the damage vary somewhat, but sources generally agree that the fire burned 47 acres (19 ha) just south of t…
A fire destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people in Chicago, leading to reforms in the city's fire-prevention and…
The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877, continuing until 1879 in France and in Bri…
Der Krach: The Vienna stock exchange crash begins the Panic of 1873 and heralds the Long Depression
Levi Strauss was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisco,…
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U
Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi, an Afro-Omani Sultan and the son of Said bin Sultan, was the second Sultan of Zanzibar. He ruled Zanzibar from 7 October 1870 to 26 March 1888.
Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain
Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, was a military engineer and the first Governor-General of Russian Turkestan.
Russian forces under General von Kaufmann capture the city of Khiva from the Khanate of Khiva