What is 1870?
{{Year nav|1870}} {{Year in various calendars|1870}} {{Year article header|1870}} == 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]], [[Germany|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]] (d. [[1936]]; executed by electrocution) * [[ June 13 ]] Sophia of Prussia Queen of Greece Grand Daughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Kaiser William II of Germany and mother of future 3 kings George II Alexander I Paul I ( died [[ 1932 ]] * [[July 3]] – [[Richard Bedford Bennett]], eleventh [[Prime Minister of Canada]]. * [[July 12]] – [[Louis II of Monaco]] * [[July 29]] – [[George Dixon]], Black [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[Boxing|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]] – [[Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt|Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt]], ''[[Prix Goncourt]]'' * [[October 12]] – [[Robert E. Lee]], Confederate General. * [[November 4]] – [[Comte de Lautreamont]], French poet and writer. *