Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1818 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet ( d. 1870 )

* 1870 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet ( d. 1919 )

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 1924 – Lloyd Hildebrand, French racing cyclist ( b. 1870 )

* 1965 – Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American cosmetics manufacturer ( b. 1870 )

* 1870 – The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.

* 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American financier ( d. 1965 )

* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

* 1870 – Julius Körner, German rower ( death date unknown )

* 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia ( d. 1891 )

* 1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, president of the Republic of Texas ( d. 1870 )

* 1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter ( d. 1905 )

* 1870 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer ( d. 1929 )

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

* Arthur Wellesley Hughes ( 1870 – 1950 ), also known as Arthur Wellesley, Canadian musician and composer

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* 1819 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer ( d. 1870 )

* October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer ( b. 1870 )

Teuffel's most important work was his Geschichte der römischen Litteratur ( 1870 ); revisions by Ludwig Schwabe, Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch carried this to a 6th – 7th edition ( 1913 – 1920 ).

Keglevich and Strousberg had come in the year 1865 in direct competition in a project in today's Slovakia, whereupon, in 1870, the Government of Hungary and finally in 1872 the Emperor-King Franz Joseph I of Austria resolved the question of these competing projects.

** Biographical sketch by Karl Bartsch in Franz Pfeiffer, ed., Uhlands Briefwechsel mit Freiherrn von Lassberg ( 1870 )

He was one of the band of professors who in 1870 supported Döllinger in his resistance to the Vatican decrees, and was excommunicated along with Döllinger, Johann Nepomuk Huber, Johann Friedrich, Franz Heinrich Reusch, Joseph Hubert Reinkens and others, for refusing to accept them.

Franz Lehár ( 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948 ) was an Austro-Hungarian composer.

Albin, who was made a Baron in 1870 by the Emperor Franz Joseph, was twenty-two years older than his young and socially ambitious wife.

* Franz Lehár ( 1870 – 1948 ), operetta composer, was born here

Leopold II of Tuscany ( Italian: Leopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo, German: Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl ; 3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870 ) was the last reigning grand duke of Tuscany ( 1824 – 1859 ).

* Franz von Dingelstedt ( 1867 – 1870 )

* Franz Unger ( 1800 – 1870 ), pioneer in plant physiology, phytotomy and soil science

* 1870: A Decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria established Polish as the official language of the school.

Karl Sturm reports that Klara Fauerbach owned a notarielle Beurkundung (“ notarized certification ”) about 1970 according to which her grandfather August Krebs “ bought the Castle Mill property on 4 February 1870 for 22, 000 Gulden from Franz Hembes, mayor and estate owner in Ober-Olm, who had earlier acquired it from the miller Michael Hembes for 20, 000 Gulden.

After the turn of the 20th century, Franz Lehár ( 1870 – 1948 ) wrote The Merry Widow ( 1905 ); and Oscar Straus ( 1870 – 1954 ) supplied Ein Walzertraum (" A Waltz Dream ", 1907 ) and The Chocolate Soldier ( 1908 ).

* Franz Lehár, operetta composer, born in Komárom ( now Slovakia ) on April 30, 1870 died in Bad Ischl on October 28, 1948.

The story has been the subject of notable paintings by Agnolo Bronzino, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Honoré Daumier, Edward Burne-Jones ( four major works from 1868 – 1870, then again in larger versions from 1875 – 1878 with the title Pygmalion and the Image ), Auguste Rodin, Ernest Normand, Paul Delvaux, Francisco Goya, Franz von Stuck, François Boucher, and Thomas Rowlandson, among others.

* Franz Unger ( 1800 – 1870 ), Austrian botanist

In 1870, at the age of 14, Julius Röntgen visited Franz Liszt in Weimar ; after playing piano for him he was invited to a soiree at Liszt's house.

Franz Metzner ( 18 November 1870, Wscherau, near Pilsen-24 March 1919, Berlin ) was an influential German sculptor, particularly his sculptural figures integrated into the architecture of Central European public buildings in the Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / Vienna Secession period.

They had four children: Clara, 1806 – 1885, who married Franz Aich ( 1803 – 1870 ), also from a well known family of brewers in Tyrnau ; a daughter who died circa 1808 ; another daughter ; and Anton Dreher ( the elder ), born 1810, married ( i ), Anna Wigrill ( 1816 – 1841 ), the daughter of a shipmaster and land owner from Krems and, after the death of his first wife, ( ii ) Ann Hersfeld, 1824 – 1884, daughter of an administrator for the family of Thurn-Taxis, in Regensburg.