1870


1870 (MDCCCLXX)

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Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed and construction of the
same begins

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 right to vote, is passed.

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
United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit
in the U.S. Congress.

In New York City, the first pneumatic subway is opened.

The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the
Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University.

The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving blacks
the right to vote, is ratified.

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
Union is born (d. 1924)

After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United
States of America, the Confederate States of America (a/k/a the CSA)
ceases to exist.

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
National Theatre.

Reconstruction: Georgia becomes the last former Confederate state to
be readmitted to the Union, and the C.S.A. is dissolved.

Pastor Aeternus: Pope Pius IX declares papal infallibility in matters
of faith and morals.

Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.

Tower Station, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in
London, England.

Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces defeat the
French armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers
prisoner at Sedan.

Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is
declared. Empress Eugenie flees to England with her children.

Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, becomes the first woman in the
United States to cast a vote legally since 1807.

With Bersaglieri soldiers entering Rome at Porta Pia, the unification
of Italy is completed, ending the last remnant of the Papal States.
Rome becomes the capital of unified Italy.

Leon Michel Gambetta escapes the besieged Paris in a hot-air balloon.

In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed
the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological
forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee… and along the
Lakes".

Infanticide is banned in India.

1 of the 916 members of Indian Civil Service is Indian.