Explore 570 historical events from 1870–1879.
Lucy Burns was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate. She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. …
Lucy Burns, American activist, co-founded the National Woman's Party (died 1966)
Stefan Filipkiewicz was a Polish painter and designer. He was born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, and died in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, Nazi Germany, during the Holocaust. …
Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter (died 1944)
Bernadette Soubirous, SCN, also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was a miller's daughter from Lourdes, in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experien…
Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (born 1844)
Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as the fir…
Emma Smith, American religious leader (born 1804)
Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took p…
Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator, designed the Semper Opera House (born 1803)
Asa Packer was an American businessman who pioneered railroad construction, was active in Pennsylvania politics, and founded Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was a …
Asa Packer, American businessman, founded Lehigh University (born 1805)
Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean Navy officer and lawyer. He was killed in the Battle of Iquique, during the War of the Pacific. During his career, Prat had taken part in s…
Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (born 1848)
William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the aboli…
William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (born 1805)
Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial, also known as Louis-Napoléon, was the only child of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and Empress Eugénie. After his father was dethroned in 187…
Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (born 1856)
William Tilbury Fox was an English dermatologist.
William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (born 1836)
William, Prince of Orange, was heir apparent to the Dutch throne as the eldest son of King William III from 17 March 1849 until his death.
William, Prince of Orange (born 1840)
Richard Heron Anderson was a career U.S. Army officer, fighting with distinction in the Mexican–American War. He also served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War,…
Richard H
Sir Edward Deas Thomson was a Scotsman who became an administrator and politician in Australia, and was chancellor of the University of Sydney.
Edward Deas Thomson, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Chief Secretary of New South Wales (born 1800)
Maurycy Gottlieb (; 21 February 1856 – 17 July 1879) was a Polish-Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottli…
Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian-Polish painter (born 1856)
The Senate of Finland combined the functions of cabinet and supreme court in the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1816 to 1917 and in independent Finland from 1917 to 1918.
The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands
The Hödel assassination attempt, or the assassination attempt on Wilhelm I of 11 May 1878, was an armed attack carried out by Max Hödel, a young German anarchist, against the Kaise…
Hödel assassination attempt by anarchist Max Hödel targeting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I
The Salem witchcraft trial of 1878, also known as the Ipswich witchcraft trial and the second Salem witch trial, was an American civil case held in May 1878 in Salem, Massachusetts…
The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of
The Universal Postal Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal syste…
Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
Reginald Erskine Foster, nicknamed Tip Foster, commonly designated R. E. Foster in sporting literature, was an English first-class cricketer and footballer. He is the only man to h…
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Emil Edwin "Judge" Fuchs was a German-born American baseball owner and executive.
Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (died 1961)
Demetrios Stephen Petrokokkinos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Demetrios Petrokokkinos, Greek tennis player (died 1942)
Jean Crotti was a French painter.
Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter (died 1958)
William G. Merz was an American gymnast and track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He died in Overland, Missouri.
William Merz, American gymnast and triathlete (died 1946)
Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas betw…
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H