1870 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1870?
- January 6, 1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
- January 10, 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- January 15, 1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
- January 26, 1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
- February 9, 1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
- February 10, 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
- June 19, 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
- July 1, 1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- July 15, 1870 – Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
- July 19, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
- August 6, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
- August 8, 1870 – The Republic of Ploieşti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
- August 18, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
- August 24, 1870 – The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
- September 19, 1870 – Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
- September 20, 1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy.
- October 7, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
- October 27, 1870 – Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
- November 1, 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
- December 12, 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first one being Hiram Revels.
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