1870 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1870?
- January 6, 1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
- 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).
- February 3, 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- February 28, 1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
- March 30, 1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
- April 13, 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- June 19, 1870 – After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
- June 26, 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
- 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 18, 1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
- August 5, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
- 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 16, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
- September 3, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
- September 18, 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
- September 19, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.
- December 26, 1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
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