1870
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years: 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875
[edit] Events
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
[edit] Births
- January 8 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
- January 15 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
- February 7 - Alfred Adler, psychologist
- March 5 - Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)
- March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)
- March 20 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
- April 22 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
- April 30 - Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948)
- May 19 - Albert Fish, serial killer
- July 3 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 12 - Louis II of Monaco
- July 29 - George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion in any weight class.
- August 31 - Maria Montessori, educator
- September 26 - King Christian X of Denmark
- November 21 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official
- December 5 - Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949)
[edit] Deaths
- February 11 - Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
- February 11 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
- February 19 - Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower
- March 28 - George Henry Thomas, American general
- June 9 - Charles Dickens, British novelist
- July 20 - Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
- October 12 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.
- November 4 - Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
- December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author
- December 27 - General Prim, Spanish dictator.
- Henry Rowe - Gothic architect