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July 13 – Daniel Sheldon Norton, U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1865 to 1870 (born 1829) June 27 – Cyrus Kingsbury, Congregationalist missionary to Cherokee and Choctaw tribes (died in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory) August 14 – David Farragut, flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War (born 1801)
From left to right, clockwise: Conflict erupts between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia leading to the Franco-Prussian War in 1870; a fire in Chicago kills approximately 300 people and leaves about another 100,000 people homeless in 1871; Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise is recognized as the source of inspiration for the Impressionist movement; The U.S. Army is defeated by ...
Gilje, Paul A. Rioting in America (Indiana UP, 1996), interpretive history from colonial era to present; Gordon, Michael A. The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870 and 1871 (Cornell UP, 2018) see Orange Riots
U.S. territorial extent in 1870. 1870 – 15th Amendment; 1870 – First graduate programs (at Yale and Harvard) 1870 – Black Codes; 1870 - Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia are readmitted to the union; 1871 – Great Chicago Fire; 1871 – Treaty of Washington with the British Empire regarding Canada
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
1870 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1870th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 870th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1870, the ...
The 1870 United States elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant's first term, during the Third Party System. Members of the 42nd United States Congress were chosen in this election. The election took place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were barred from voting.
1870 in the United States by state or territory (49 C) 1870 disestablishments in the United States (12 C, 3 P) 1870 establishments in the United States (49 C, 9 P)