Explore 1130 historical events from 1870–1879.
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, better known as Nicholas Roerich, was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. He is best known for hi…
Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (died 1947)
James Timothy Burke was an American Major League Baseball third baseman, coach, and manager. He played for the Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Wh…
Jimmy Burke, American baseball player and manager (died 1942)
József Klekl was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest from Prekmurje and politician in Hungary, writer, governor of the Slovene People's Party (Slovenska lüdska stranka), later a delega…
József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (died 1948)
Tan Kah Kee was a Chinese businessman, investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist active in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Xiamen, and Guangzhou.
Tan Kah Kee, Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (died 1961)
Charles Henry Kilpatrick was an American athlete. His best event was the 880 yard run, in which he became the national champion three times and established a long-lived world recor…
Charles Kilpatrick, American runner and educator (died 1921)
Emma Gramatica was an Italian stage and film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1919 and 1962. She was born in Borgo San Donnino, today Fidenza, province of Parma and died i…
Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (died 1965)
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was the son and heir apparent of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He died aged 24 under circumstances still not entirely c…
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. H…
Charles Ives, American composer (died 1954)
Victor Jean Marie Sonnemans was a Belgian water polo player and won silver medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Victor Sonnemans, Belgian water polo player (died 1962)
Huang Xing or Huang Hsing was a Chinese revolutionary leader and politician, and the first commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. As one of the founders of the Kuomintang (KM…
Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (died 1916)
Thomas Martin Lowry was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a …
Martin Lowry, English chemist and academic (died 1936)
Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanth…
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American philanthropist, founded the Museum of Modern Art (died 1948)
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)
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)
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)
Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist. Among his ideas was that mountains were created in a series of episodes over geological time due to the c…
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (born 1798)
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…