Page 7: Historical Events In 1870

Aug 18   Battle at Gravelotte Privat: Prussia beat France, 32000 casualties   

Aug 18   Felix Salm-Salm, Prussian/US prince/brig-general, dies in battle   

Aug 19   Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War)   

Aug 24   The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion   

Aug 26   Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7]   

Aug 27   Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet.   

Aug 31   Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (spontaneous response)   

Sep 01   Napoleon III captured at Sedan.   

Sep 01   Timotei Popovici, composer   

Sep 02   Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48.   

Sep 02   Marie Ault, [Mary Cragg], Wigan England.   

Sep 02   Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies.   

Sep 04   3rd French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king.   

Sep 04   Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Das Nibelungenlied)   

Sep 06   Ship sinks in Gulf of Biskaje; 483 die.   

Sep 07   Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [OS=Aug 26].   

Sep 08   Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer.   

Sep 08   Neth and Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname.   

Sep 10   Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms.   

Sep 11   Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46.   

Sep 15   Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18).   

Sep 18   Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian).   

Sep 19   Siege of Paris begins   

Sep 20   Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French   

Sep 22   Arthur Willard Pryor, composer.   

Sep 23   John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist.   

Sep 24   Georges Claude, inventor (neon light).   

Sep 26   Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47)   

Sep 27   Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, dies at 50.   

Sep 30   Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926).   

Oct 01   Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor (grape-shot shells).   

Oct 02   Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital.   

Oct 02   Rome is recorded as becoming the capital city of Italy   

Oct 07   Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon   

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Jan 02   Ernst barlach: Writer   

Jan 03   Henry eichheim: Composer   

Jan 03   Henry handel richardson: Australia, novelist (richard mahoney)   

Jan 06   Gustav bauer: Chancellor of germany   

Jan 07   Lord gordon hewart: British judge   

Jan 08   Miguel primo de rivera orbaneja: Dictator of spain (1923-30)   

Jan 09   Joseph b strauss: Civil engineer/builder (golden gate bridge)   

Jan 11   Alexander stirling calder: American sculptor    

Jan 03   Constantine d uschinsky: Russian educationalist,   

Jan 07   Karl schwencke: Composer,   

Jan 11   Adolf ganz: Composer,   

Jan 21   Alexander herzen: Russian writer (b. 1812)   

Jan 26   Cesare pugni: Composer,   

Jan 29   Leopold ii: Grand duke of tuscany (b. 1797)   

Feb 11   Jacob m de kempenaer: Dutch min of internal aff (1848-49),    

Feb 14   St. john richardson liddell: American civil war confederate general (b. 1815)