Explore 883 historical events from 1870–1879.
Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and gre…
Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1956)
Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with…
Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (died 1958)
Sada Yacco or Sadayakko was a Japanese geisha, actress and dancer.
Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (died 1946)
Jakob Mändmets was an Estonian writer and journalist.
Jakob Mändmets, Estonian writer and journalist (died 1930)
William Arthur Holman was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1913 to 1920. He came to office as the leader of the Labor Party, but was expelled …
William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (died 1934)
Gustavs Zemgals was a Latvian politician and the second President of Latvia. He also was twice the mayor of Riga.
Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian politician, 2nd President of Latvia (died 1939)
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist politician and revolutionary. A leader of the far-left wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Liebknecht…
Karl Liebknecht, German politician, co-founded Communist Party of Germany (died 1919)
The Guangxu Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth and penultimate emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing empe…
Guangxu Emperor of China (died 1908)
John Ashby Lester was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and a teacher. Lester was one of the Philadelphian cricketers who played from the end…
John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (died 1969)
John French Sloan was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as Th…
John French Sloan, American painter and illustrator (died 1951)
Vernon Louis Parrington was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach. The first two volumes of his is three-volume history of American letters, Main Curr…
Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (died 1929)
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane…
Orville Wright, American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (died 1948)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite…
Theodore Dreiser, American novelist and journalist (died 1945)
Albert François Lebrun was a French politician who served as President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic before its dissolution into the …
Albert François Lebrun, French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (died 1950)
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described…
Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)
James Edward Ferguson Jr., known as Pa Ferguson, was an American Democratic politician who served as the 26th governor of Texas from 1915 to 1917. He was indicted and impeached dur…
James E. Ferguson, American banker and politician, 26th governor of Texas (died 1944)
Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. was an American attorney, civil servant, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born in Grantsville, Utah Territory, he was an att…
J. Reuben Clark, American lawyer, civil servant, and religious leader (died 1961)
Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924.
Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)
George Herbert Hirst was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1921, with a further appearance in 1929…
George Hirst, English cricketer and coach (died 1954)
Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin, was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He started the McLaughlin Motor Car Company in 1907, one of the first major automobile manufacturer…
Samuel McLaughlin, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company (died 1972)
Charles Benjamin Collett was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941. He designed the GWR's 4-6-0 Castle and King Class express passenger locomotiv…
Charles Collett, English engineer (died 1952)
Prince Luigi Marcantonio Francesco Rodolfo Scipione Borghese, commonly known as Scipione Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber …
Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Italian racing driver, mountaineer, and politician (died 1927)
Eivind Astrup was a Norwegian explorer and writer. Astrup participated in Robert Peary's expedition to Greenland in 1891–92 and mapped northern Greenland. In the follow-up Greenlan…
Eivind Astrup, Norwegian explorer (died 1895)
Frederick Ruple was a 20th-century Swiss-American painter, primarily of portraits. He was commissioned to paint Confederate Civil War battle scenes and murals. At times Ruple lived…
Frederick Ruple, Swiss-American painter (died 1938)