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List of events
Events from the year 1870 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
January–March
February 25:
Hiram Rhodes Revels , the first
African American congressman.
January 1 – Plans for the
Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
January 3 – Construction of the
Brooklyn Bridge begins.
January 10 –
John D. Rockefeller incorporates
Standard Oil .
January 15 – A
political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the
United States Democratic Party with a
donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by
Thomas Nast for
Harper's Weekly ).
January 26 –
Reconstruction :
Virginia rejoins the Union.
January 27 – The first college
sorority ,
Kappa Alpha Theta , is established at
DePauw University .
February 2 – The
Cardiff Giant is proven a hoax.
February 3 – The
15th Amendment to the United States Constitution , guaranteeing African-American males the right to vote, is ratified.
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February 9 – The Weather Bureau, later renamed the
National Weather Service , is established.
February 10
February 12 – Women gain the
right to vote in
Utah Territory. On February 14, in a
Salt Lake City municipal election,
Seraph Young Ford becomes the first woman in the U.S. to cast her vote.
February 23 – Military control of
Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
February 25 –
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 .
February 26
March 19 – The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later
Ohio State University .
March 24 –
Syracuse University is established and officially opens.
March 30
March 31 –
Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African-American to vote in an election.
April–June
July–September
October–December
October 25 –
Eutaw riot : A white mob attacks a group of black citizens, killing as many as four of them, in
Eutaw, Alabama .
November 1 – The newly created
Weather Bureau makes its first official
meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".
December 12 –
Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman (following Hiram Rhodes Revels in February).
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 9 –
Joseph Strauss , bridge engineer (died
1938 )
January 11 –
Alexander Stirling Calder , sculptor (died
1945 )
January 13 –
Ross Granville Harrison , physiologist (died
1959 )
January 23 –
William G. Morgan , inventor of volleyball (died
1942 )
February 20 –
Jay Johnson Morrow , military engineer and politician, 3rd
Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (died
1937 )
February 26 –
John S. Cohen , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1932 to 1933 (died
1935 )
March 5 –
Frank Norris , journalist and naturalist novelist (died
1902 )
March 13
April 4
April 17 –
Ray Stannard Baker , journalist and modern historian (died 1946)
May –
Bert Wakefield , Negro leagues baseball player
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May 19 –
Albert Fish , serial killer (died
1936 )
May 24 –
Benjamin N. Cardozo ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1938)
July 9 –
Mathew Beard , supercentenarian (died
1985 )
July 17 –
Marie Louise Obenauer , labor laws pioneer (died
1947 )
July 25 –
Maxfield Parrish , illustrator (died
1966 )
August 3 –
Carrie Ingalls , younger sister of author
Laura Ingalls Wilder (died
1946 )
August 14 –
Nelson McDowell , actor (died
1947 )
August 20 –
Edward Stanley Kellogg , 16th
Governor of American Samoa (died
1948 )
August 25 –
Mihran Kassabian , radiologist (died
1910 )
September 2 –
James Bert Garner , chemical engineer and inventor (died
1960 )
September 21 –
Elmer Darwin Ball , entomologist (died 1943)
September 25 –
James A. Hawken , schoolteacher (died
1964 )
September 30 –
Thomas W. Lamont , banker (died 1948)
October 7 –
Uncle Dave Macon , banjo player and singer-songwriter (died
1952 )
November 2 –
Joseph J. Sullivan , gambler (died
1949 )
December 12 –
Walter Benona Sharp , oil pioneer (died
1912 )
December 23 –
John Marin , modernist painter (died
1953 )
Robert Ames Bennet , Western and science fiction writer (died
1954 )
Zella de Milhau , artist, ambulance driver, community organizer and motorcycle policewoman (b.
1954 )
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Deaths
January 17 –
Alexander Anderson , illustrator (born
1775 )
January 25 –
David Bates , poet (born
1809 )
March 26 –
Pierre Soulé , U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1847 and from 1849 to 1853 (born
1801 )
March 28 –
George Henry Thomas , general (born
1816 )
April 15 –
Emma Willard , women's rights activist and educationalist (born
1787 )
April 26 –
Zerah Colburn , locomotive designer and technical journalist (suicide) (born
1832 )
May 9 –
Lawrence Brainerd , U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1854 to 1855 (born
1794 )
June 11 –
William Gilmore Simms , Southern poet, novelist and historian (born
1806 )
June 17 –
Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte , agriculturalist, nephew of
Napoleon I (born
1805 in the United Kingdom )
July 13 –
Daniel Sheldon Norton , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1865 to 1870 (born
1829 )
June 27 – Cyrus Kingsbury, Congregationalist missionary to Cherokee and Choctaw tribes (died in Choctaw Nation,
Indian Territory )
August 14 –
David Farragut ,
flag officer of the
United States Navy during the
American Civil War (born
1801 )
September 12 –
Fitz Hugh Ludlow , author and explorer (born
1836 )
October 3 –
Joseph Mozier , sculptor best known for his work in Italy (born
1812 )
October 12
December 5 –
David Gouverneur Burnet , politician (born
1788 )
December 16 –
Byron Kilbourn , surveyor, railroad executive and politician (born 1801)
December 28 –
Wilson Lumpkin , U.S. Senator from Georgia and Governor of Georgia from 1831 to 1835 (born
1783 )
See also
References
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"15th Amendment to the Constitution: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)" . www.loc.gov . Retrieved February 2, 2016 .
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"A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875" . memory.loc.gov . Retrieved February 2, 2016 .
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"Unions Win Again" Duluth News-Tribune , Duluth, Minnesota, September 17, 1900, Page 6, Column 3
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"Zella de Milhau | Smithsonian American Art Museum" . americanart.si.edu . Retrieved March 15, 2021 .
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