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 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 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 ).

:*" The Vision of Tom Chuff ", from All the Year Round, October 1870.

* July 2 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer ( b. 1870 )

The Challenge Belt was retired in 1870, when Young Tom Morris was allowed to keep it for winning the tournament three consecutive times.

* Challenge Belt – awarded to the winner from 1860 until 1870 when Young Tom Morris won the belt outright.

* Tom Jackson ( rugby player ) ( 1870 – 1952 ), Welsh rugby union international

Arguably the real first World Heavyweight champion was Jem Mace who defeated Tom Allen in 1870 at Kenner, Louisiana, but strong anti-British sentiment within the mostly Irish American boxing community at that time chose to disregard him.

* Thomas J. Smith ( 1830 – 1870 ), known as Tom " Bear River " Smith, American law officer

* Tom Watson ( footballer born 1870 ) ( 1870 – 1902 ), English football goalkeeper for Small Heath

In 1870 he defeated Tom Allen at Kenner, Louisiana, near New Orleans.

The awarding of the Claret Jug dates from 1872, when a new trophy was needed after Young Tom Morris had won the original Challenge Belt outright in 1870 by winning the Championship three years in a row.

He is one of only four golfers who have won three consecutive Opens, alongside Young Tom Morris ( 1868 – 1870 ), Bob Ferguson ( 1880 – 82 ) and Peter Thomson ( 1954 – 56 ).

Tom Richardson ( 11 August 1870, Byfleet, Surrey – 2 July 1912, Chambéry, France ) was an English cricketer.

* Tom Richardson ( 1870 – 1912 ), cricketer

However the arrival of a new generation of Jesuit teachers, notably Tom and Peter Finlay ( the latter recorded in Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man ) brought a new vigour and prestige in the 1870 ′ s.

Thomas ( Tom ) Jones, CH ( 27 September 1870 – 15 October 1955 ) was a British civil servant and educationalist, once described as " one of the six most important men in Europe ", and also as " the King of Wales " and " man of a thousand secrets ".

It was devastated by Indian raids until Fort Richardson was built south of Jacksboro in 1870.

* Green, Dorothy " Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay ( Henry Handel ) ( 1870 – 1946 )" in Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition Accessed: 2007-09-20

Richardson ( 2004 ) argues that Northern Republicans came to see most blacks as potentially dangerous to the economy because they might prove to be labor radicals in the tradition of the 1870 Paris Commune, or the labor radicals of the violent American strikes in the 1870s.

After graduating from Harvard, he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before joining the office of Henry Hobson Richardson in 1870.

Richardson first used elements of the style in his Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York, designed in 1870.

* Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson ( 1870 – 1946 )- Author

Richardson held the position until 1870.

* Henry Handel Richardson ( 1870 – 1946 ), author

The suburb is named after the author Henry Handel Richardson, nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson ( 1870 – 1946 ).