Explore 281 historical events from 1870–1879.
William Welles Hoyt was an American track and field athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter (died 1951)
Harriet Quimby was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1…
Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (died 1912)
Hendrik Karel Offerhaus was a Dutch medical doctor and rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which finished third in the …
Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch Olympic rower and head of the Dutch Red Cross (died 1953)
Robert S. Garrett was an American athlete, as well as investment banker and philanthropist in Baltimore, Maryland and financier of several important archeological excavations. Garr…
Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and shot putter (died 1961)
A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.
Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (died 1942)
Jorge Alejandro Newbery Malagarie was an Argentine aviator, civil servant, engineer and scientist. He died in an airplane crash on 1 March 1914, at the age of 38.
Jorge Newbery, Argentine aviator (died 1914)
Giovanni Gentile was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician.
Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher and academic (died 1944)
Charles Henry Holden was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of Lon…
Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (died 1960)
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a longtime president, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors …
Alfred P
Rosa May Billinghurst was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was known popularly as the "cripple suffragette" as she campaigned in a tricycle.
Rosa May Billinghurst, British suffragette and women's rights activist (died 1953)
Charles Stewart Mott was an American industrialist and businessman, philanthropist, a co-owner of General Motors, and the 50th and 55th mayor of Flint, Michigan.
Charles Stewart Mott, American businessman and politician, 50th Mayor of Flint, Michigan (died 1973)
Trinley Gyatso also spelled: Thinle Gyatso was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
12th Dalai Lama (born 1857)
Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. He was a man of talent and accomplishment, but his love of self-promotion and refus…
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (born 1766)
John Cabell Breckinridge was an American politician who served as the 14th vice president of the United States, with President James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861, and as a general i…
John C
Rosa May Billinghurst was a British suffragette and women's rights activist. She was known popularly as the "cripple suffragette" as she campaigned in a tricycle.
Rosa May Billinghurst, "cripple suffragette" (sic)
Józef Kremer was a Polish historian of art, philosopher, aesthetician and psychologist.
Józef Kremer, Polish psychologist, historian, and philosopher (born 1806)
Georges Bizet was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Car…
Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (born 1838)
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk…
Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (born 1804)
The Minute Man is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French in Minute Man National Historical Park, located in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. It was created between 1871 a…
The Minute Man was unveiled as part of the centennial celebration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Metre Convention, also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations: Argentina, Austria…
Representatives from seventeen countries signed the Metre Convention, which set up an institute for the purpose of coord
The Mill River is a 13.5-mile-long (21.7 km) tributary of the Connecticut River arising in the western hilltowns of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is notable for dropping in e…
A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people
Dorsland Trek is the collective name of a series of explorations undertaken by Boer settlers from South Africa from 1874 to 1881, in search of political independence and better liv…
The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria
Jōtarō Watanabe was a general in the early Shōwa period Imperial Japanese Army, noted as one of the victims of the February 26 Incident.
Jōtarō Watanabe, Japanese general (died 1936)
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (died 1938)