1870 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1870?
- January 3, 1870 – The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- January 23, 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
- January 27, 1870 – The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
- 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.
- February 25, 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
- February 27, 1870 – The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- April 13, 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art founded.
- May 12, 1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
- 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.
- July 19, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
- August 18, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
- September 1, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- September 3, 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
- September 6, 1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
- 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.
- 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.
- December 26, 1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
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