Year (''' MDCCCLXX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1 - First edition of The Northern Echo newspaper published.
- January 1 - Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
- January 3 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
- January 6 - The inauguration of the Musikverein ( Vienna ).
- January 10 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil .
- January 15 - A political Cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a Donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for '' Harper's Weekly '').
- rejoins the Union .
- January 27 - First college Sorority , Kappa Alpha Theta , is established at DePauw University .
- February - Vrain Denis-Lucas in sentenced for two years in prison for multiple Forgery in Paris .
- February 1 - Goodna State School in Goodna , Queensland , Australia is founded.
- February 2 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved Gypsum and not the petrified remains of a Human .
- February 3 - The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed.
- February 10
- --- Anaheim, California is incorporated.
- ---The YWCA is founded in New York City .
- February 12 - Women gain the Right To Vote in Utah Territory.
- February 23 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
- February 25 - Hiram Rhodes Revels , a Republican from Mississippi , is sworn into the United States Senate , becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress .
- February 26 - In New York City, the first Pneumatic - Subway is opened.
- February 28 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire .
- March 2 - Francisco Solano López ' last troops cornered by Triple Alliance troops at Cerro Cora . López refuses to surrender and is killed. Fighting ends in Paraguay - the War Of The Triple Alliance is over.
- March 3 - Thomas Scott is executed by Louis Reil 's provisional government during the Red River Rebellion in modern day Manitoba Canada .
- March 19 - Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later The Ohio State University .
- March 24 - Syracuse University is established and officially opens.
- March 30
- ---The 15th Amendment is entered into the United States Constitution , giving blacks the right to vote.
- --- Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction .
- March 31 - Thomas Mundy Peterson the first African-American to vote in an election.
- January 2 - Ernst Barlach , German sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1938 )
- January 6 - Gustav Bauer , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1944 )
- January 8 - Miguel Primo De Rivera , dictator of Spain (d. 1930 )
- February 7 - Alfred Adler , Austrian psychologist (d. 1937 )
- March 4 - Thomas Sturge Moore , English poet, author and artist (d. 1944 )
- March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg , Polish-born German political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary (d. 1919 )
- March 5 - Frank Norris , American writer (d. 1902 )
- March 13 - Seale Harris , American Physician (d. 1957 )
- March 17 - Horace Donisthorpe , English entomologist (d. 1951 )
- March 20 - Paul Erich Von Lettow-Vorbeck , German general (d. 1964 )
- April 1 - Hamaguchi Osachi , 27th Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 1931 )
- April 4 - George Albert Smith , president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1951 )
- April 22 - Vladimir Lenin , Russian revolutionary and first Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1924 )
- April 30 - Franz Lehár , Austrian composer (d. 1948 )
- May 9 - Harry Vardon , English Golf Professional (d. 1937 )
- May 19 - Albert Fish , American serial killer (d. 1936 )
- June 13 - Jules Bordet , Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1961 )
- July 3 - Richard Bedford Bennett , eleventh Prime Minister Of Canada (d. 1947 )
- July 12 - Louis II Of Monaco (d. 1949 )
- July 29 - George Dixon , Canadian boxer (d. 1909 )
- August 3 - Caroline Celestia "Carrie" Ingalls, Née Swanzey , Younger sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. June 2 , 1946 )
- August 11 - Tom Richardson , English cricketer (d. 1912 )
- August 31 - Maria Montessori , Italian educator (d. 1952 )
- September 25 - James A. Hawken , Schoolteacher (d. 1964 )
- September 26 - King Christian X Of Denmark (d. 1947 )
- September 30 - Jean Baptiste Perrin , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942 )
- October 10 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin , Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953 )
- November 21 - Sigfrid Edström , Swedish sports official (d. 1964 )
- November 27 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi , Prime Minister and President Of Finland (d. 1956 )
- December 5 - Vítězslav Novák , Czech composer (d. 1949 )
- December 10 - Mary Bonaparte , pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947 )
- December 12 - Walter Benona Sharp , American oil pioneer (d. 1912 )
- December 18 - Saki , English writer (d. 1916 )
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- July 20 - Jules Alfred Huot De Goncourt , French writer and publisher (b. 1830 )
- September 12 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow , American author and explorer (b. 1836 )
- September 23 - Prosper Mérimée , French writer (b. 1803 )
- October 12 - Robert E. Lee , American Confederate general (b. 1807 )
- November 24 - Comte De Lautreamont , French poet and writer (b. 1846 )
- November 28 - Frédéric Bazille , French painter (b. 1841 )
- December 5 - Alexandre Dumas, Père , French author (b. 1802 )
- December 27 - General Prim , Spanish dictator (b. 1814 )
- ''date unknown'' - Patrick MacDowell , Northern Irish sculptor (b. 1799 )
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