Explore 883 historical events from 1870–1879.
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…
Patrick Francis Healy was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's…
Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American…
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
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…
The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to soci…
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Patrick Francis Healy was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's…
Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States
Prince Edward Island is an island province of Canada. It is the smallest province by both land area and population, but has the highest population density in Canada. The island has…
Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
Adair is a city in Adair and Guthrie counties of Iowa in the United States. The population was 791 at the 2020 census.
At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old…
The Clay Street Hill Railroad was the first successful cable hauled street railway, operating in San Francisco, California. It began service on September 1, 1873, along Clay Street…
The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, were initially fought by European colonial empires, the United States, and briefly the Conf…
American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under…
Albert Bridge is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea on the south. Designed and built by Rowland Mason Ordish in 1873 as an Ordish…
The Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
Jay Cooke & Company was a U.S. bank that operated from 1861 to 1873. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with branches in New York City and Washington, D.C., the bank help…
The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
James Harcourt was an English character actor.
James Harcourt, English character actor (died 1951)
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short s…
Ellen Glasgow, American author (died 1945)
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his ps…
Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer, and novelist (died 1956)
Julius Johannes Ludovicus Ritter von Payer, ennobled Ritter von Payer in 1876, was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army, mountaineer, arctic explorer, cartographer, painter, and…
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
Cetshwayo kaMpande was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been rendered as Cetywayo, Cetewayo…
Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
The Franco-Prussian War, occasionally known as the Franco-German War, and sometimes referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between France and the North German Con…
Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. He was right-handed and bowled at a pace that varied from me…
Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (died 1967)
Howard Roger Garis was an American author, best known for a series of books that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit. Many of his books wer…
Howard Garis, American author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories (died 1962)
Jurgis Baltrušaitis was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator who wrote in Lithuanian and Russian, and was an exponent of iconology. He was the father of art historian and cri…
Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator (died 1944)