Explore 281 historical events from 1870–1879.
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 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
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)
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
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
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)
Pavlo Petrovych Skoropadsky was a Ukrainian aristocrat, military leader and statesman who served as the hetman of the Ukrainian State throughout 1918 following a coup d'état on 29 …
Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (died 1945)
Anton Joseph Cermak was an American politician who served as the 44th Mayor of Chicago from 1931 until he was fatally wounded in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to assassi…
Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (died 1933)
James Edward Hervey MacDonald was an English-born Canadian artist, best known as a member of the Group of Seven who asserted a distinct national identity combined with a common her…
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Hans Berger was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the…
Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (died 1941)
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson was a Norwegian artist, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.
Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1958)
Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American wireworker and anarchist who assassinated United States president William McKinley in 1901. Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic …
Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (died 1901)
Antti Oskari Tokoi was a Finnish socialist politician who served as a leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. Tokoi became Chairman of the Senate of Finland in 1917, and …
Oskari Tokoi, Finnish socialist and the Chairman of the Senate of Finland (died 1963)
Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a …
Henri Barbusse, French author and journalist (died 1935)
Dorothy Miller Richardson was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson…
Dorothy Richardson, English author and journalist (died 1957)
Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among othe…
Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (died 1918)
Elena Alistar-Romanescu was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia.
Elena Alistar, Bessarabian politician (died 1955)
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the N…
Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)
Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifeti…
Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (died 1942)