1870 (MDCCCLXX) Thanks to Wikipedia and spiritus-temporis for providing Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed and construction of the John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union. The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University. The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing African-Americans The YWCA is founded in New York City. Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. ilitary control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union. Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the In New York City, the first pneumatic subway is opened.
The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving blacks Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African-American to vote in an election. Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and first Premier of the Soviet After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United The U.S. Congress creates the United States Department of Justice. Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre is first performed at Munich’s Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to Pastor Aeternus: Pope Pius IX declares papal infallibility in matters Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. Tower Station, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces defeat the Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, becomes the first woman in the With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification Leon Michel Gambetta escapes the besieged Paris in a hot-air balloon. In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed Infanticide is banned in India. 1 of the 916 members of Indian Civil Service is Indian. |