Explore 883 historical events from 1870–1879.
Albert Henry Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield,, born Albert Henry Knattriess, was a British-American businessman who was managing director, then chairman of the Underground Electric Rai…
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, President of the Board of Trade (died 1948)
Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia was a French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100.
Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (died 1947)
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the third United States secretary of …
Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (died 1964)
Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist, and politician. He served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and later as the authoritarian head of st…
Antanas Smetona, Lithuanian jurist and politician, President of Lithuania (died 1944)
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg was a German noblewoman. She was a princess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth and a Princess of Anhalt by marriage.
Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (died 1953)
Max Ferdinand Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent Ger…
Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (died 1928)
Zona Gale, also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for …
Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1938)
Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one p…
Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
Napoléon Lajoie, also known as Larry Lajoie, was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "the Frenchman", h…
Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (died 1959)
Samuel Matthew Rocke was an Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1921, representing the seat of S…
Samuel Rocke, Australian politician who served as an independent member of the Legislative Assembly of Western…
Mary "Mamie" J. Dillard was an American educator, clubwoman and suffragist.
Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (died 1954)
Henry Fountain Ashurst was an American Democratic politician and one of the first two senators from Arizona. Largely self-educated, he served as a district attorney and member of t…
Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (died 1962)
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg was an Austrian and American modernist composer, music theorist, and teacher associated with developing variation, the emancipation of the dissonance…
Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (died 1951)
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor …
Walter Murdoch, Australian author and academic (died 1970)
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)
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)
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics between the July Revolution and the Revolution of 184…
François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (born 1787)
Charles-Amédée Kohler was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Chocolat Kohler. He notably invented hazelnut chocolate, in his factory opened in 1830 in Lausanne. After…
Charles-Amédée Kohler, Swiss chocolatier (born 1790)
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…