Page 4: Historical Events In 1870
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Apr 09 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves. 


Apr 13 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC. 


Apr 14 Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912) 


Apr 15 Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada 


Apr 16 Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies. 


Apr 16 Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London 


Apr 17 Ray Stannard Baker, US, journalist (Puliter Prize 1940). 


Apr 19 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #110 Lydia. 


Apr 19 Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83. 


Apr 20 Simeon Roncal, composer. 


Apr 22 Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist 


Apr 22 Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (aka Lenin), Russian leader is born. 


Apr 27 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi 


Apr 28 Hermann Suter, composer 


Apr 30 Franz Lehar, Hungarian composer is born 


Apr 30 Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta). 


May 01 Francisco Solano Lopez, fieldmarshal/president of Paraguay. 


May 06 Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose Calif, founded Bank of America 


May 10 Jem Mace and defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champ Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hr and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch 


May 10 Jem Mace defends his heavyweight crown against Irish champion Joe Coburn, it lasts 1 hour and 17 minutes, and neither is struck by a punch. 


May 12 Manitoba is recorded as becoming a Canadian province. 


May 12 Manitoba is recorded as becoming a province of Canada 


May 14 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69. 


May 14 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer. 


May 20 Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment. 


May 24 Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth and League of Nations. 


May 24 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US 


May 24 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, inaugural Missionary Bishop in US 


May 25 Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Quebec 


May 27 Lionel Palairet, cricketer (elegant England bat in the Golden Age) 


May 30 Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 


May 31 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks). 


May 31 Congress passes inaugural Enforcement Act (rights of blacks) 


May 31 E J DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement. 


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