Major Events
- Feb 3 US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races and colors
- Mar 30 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
- Jul 13 King Wilhelm I of Prussia sends the "Emser Depeche (Ems Telegram)" to Otto von Bismarck who publishes an edited version to purposely offend the French government precipitating the Franco-German War
- Sep 19 Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871)
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1870 in Music
- Jun 26 Richard Wagner's opera "Valkyrie", second in his Ring Cycle premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
Did You Know?
Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey is the first African American to vote in the US under provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, in a local election on town's charter
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Alfred Adler
Vladimir Lenin
Amadeo Giannini
Jan Smuts
Maria Montessori
James Braid
Harry Vardon
Charlotte CooperMore People Born in 1870
Fun Fact About 1870
Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London
Francisco Solano López
Charles Dickens
David Farragut
Robert E. Lee
Alexandre DumasMore 1870 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1870
- Jan 10 American lawman Wyatt Earp (21) weds Urilla Sutherland (20) in Lamar, Missouri, until her death in August of the same year
- Feb 2 American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34) marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY
- Mar 28 Impressionist Painter Claude Monet (29) weds model Camille Doncieux in Paris
More Weddings in 1870
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ulysses S. Grant
William Gladstone