1870

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Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  - 1870s -  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873

[change] Events

• Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

[change] 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)

[change] 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