1870 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s – 1870s – 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1867 1868 1869 – 1870 – 1871 1872 1873

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Events
Births
Deaths
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Events

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

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)
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)

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, writer
December 27 – General Prim, Spanish dictator.
Henry Rowe – Gothic architect

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In Spanish: 1870 para niños

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