1870

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

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)
• May 19 – Albert Fish, serial killer
• 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, author
• December 27 – General Prim, Spanish dictator.
• Henry Rowe – Gothic architect