Events January 6 - The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).\n*January 10 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil\n*January 15 - 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).\n*January 26 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union\n*January 27 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University\n*February 2 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.\n*February 3 - The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed\n*February 10 - Anaheim, California is incorporated.\n* February 10 - The YWCA is founded (New York City)\n*February 12 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.\n*February 23 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.\n*February 25 - Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the United States Congress\n*February 26 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway is opened.\n* March 2 - Francisco Solano Lopez' last troops cornered by Triple Alliance troops at Cerro Cora. Lopez refuses to surrender and is killed. Fighting ends in Paraguay - the War of the Triple Alliance is over\n*March 30 - Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.\n* April 11 - Irish peer Lord Muncaster and his entourage kidnapped in Greece\n*May 12 - The Canadian province of Manitoba is created in response to Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion\n*May 14 - First rugby match to be played in New Zealand, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.\n*July 15 - Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.\n*July 19 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. \n*September 2 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat the French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan. \n*September 4 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. Empress Eugenie flees to England with her children.\n*September 20 - With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification of Italy is completed. End of the temporal power of Papacy.\n* October 2 – Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy\n*November 1 - In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes". \n*November 16 - Spanish Cortes proclaims Amadeo de Saboya as king Amadeus I of Spain.\n* December – Assassination of Juan Prim, Prime minister of Spain \n*Franco-Prussian War Births\n*January 8 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)\n*January 15 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist\n*February 7 - Alfred Adler, psychologist\n*March 5 - Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)\n*March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)\n*March 20 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)\n*April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR\n*April 30 - Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948)\n*May 19 - Albert Fish, serial killer\n*July 3 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.\n*July 12 - Louis II of Monaco\n*July 29 - George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion in any weight class.\n*August 31 - Maria Montessori, educator\n*September 26 - King Christian X of Denmark\n*November 21 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official\n*December 5 - Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949) Deaths\n*February 11 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).\n*February 11 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer\n*February 19 - Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower\n*March 28 - George Henry Thomas, American general\n*June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist\n*July 20 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt\n*October 12 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.\n*November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer\n*November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, Impressionist painter\n*December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, pčre, author\n*December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator.\n*Henry Rowe - Gothic architect \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsimple:1870\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
