Page 6: Historical Events In 1870
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Jul 15 Georgia is recorded as becoming last confederate to be readmitted to US. 


Jul 15 Hudson's Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada. 


Jul 15 Manitoba is recorded as becoming 5th Canadian province and NW Territories created 


Jul 18 Emil Mlynarski, composer 


Jul 18 Pontifical infalliability proclaimed. 


Jul 19 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins. 


Jul 19 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins. 


Jul 20 Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice (1918-19). 


Jul 21 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42. 


Jul 22 Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42 


Jul 23 Emperor Napoleon III appoints Empress Eugenie as Regent of France 


Jul 24 1st trans-US rail service begins 


Jul 24 Fred Law Olmsted Jr, architect/landscaper 


Jul 24 The inaugural trans-US rail service begins 


Jul 25 Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar (Young Flanders). 


Jul 27 Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome). 


Jul 28 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1927-31). 


Jul 30 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 


Aug 02 Tower Subway, the world's inaugural underground tube railway, opens in London. 


Aug 04 British Red Cross Society forms. 


Aug 04 Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin) 


Aug 06 Battle at Spicheren: Prussia beats France. 


Aug 06 White conservatives suppresed black vote and captured Tenn legislature 


Aug 07 19 kittens, born to Tarawood Antigone (4 still born). 


Aug 08 Magic (US) defeats Cambria (Engld) in 2nd running of America's Cup. 


Aug 11 Tom Richardson, legendary England cricket fast bowler (1893-98). 


Aug 13 Armed tug Palos is recorded as becoming inaugural U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal. 


Aug 14 David [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies 


Aug 15 Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado. 


Aug 15 Transcontinental Railway actually completed. 


Aug 16 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion 


Aug 16 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80 


Aug 17 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington. 


Aug 17 Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine 


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