1870
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1867 1868 1869 – 1870 – 1871 1872 1873 |
1870 Media
July 19: Start of the Franco-Prussian War
Ernst Barlach
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
Portrait of Hamaguchi Osachi (濱口雄幸, 1870 – 1931), 27th Prime Minister of Japan (1929 – 1931)
Vladimir Lenin.
Austrian composer Franz Lehár (1870-1948)
Public domain photograph of Maria Montessori from 1913
French engineer and inventor Georges Claude (1870-1960).
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Births
- January 8 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
- January 15 – Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
- February 7 – Alfred Adler, psychologist
- March 5 – Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)
- March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)
- March 20 – Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
- April 22 – Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
- April 30 – Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948)
- May 19 – Albert Fish, serial killer (d. 1936; executed by electrocution)
- June 13 Sophia of Prussia Queen of Greece Grand Daughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Kaiser William II of Germany and mother of future 3 kings George II Alexander I Paul I ( died 1932
- July 3 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 12 – Louis II of Monaco
- July 29 – George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion in any weight class.
- August 31 – Maria Montessori, educator
- September 26 – King Christian X of Denmark
- November 21 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official
- December 5 – Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949)
Deaths
- February 11 – Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
- February 11 – Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
- February 19 – Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower
- March 28 – George Henry Thomas, American general
- June 9 – Charles Dickens, British novelist
- July 20 – Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
- October 12 – Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.
- November 4 – Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
- December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, writer
- December 27 – General Prim, Spanish dictator.
- Henry Rowe – Gothic architect