Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

* Government-operated post office and telegraph networks-the largest parts of the bureaucracy-were combined into a single department in each colony on the model of the UK Post Office: South Australia in 1869, Victoria in 1870, Queensland in 1880 and New South Wales in 1893.

During the Civil War, the town saw brief military action as a column of troops under U. S. General Gordon Granger reached the town as a preliminary move in the siege of Mobile. In 1870 the United States Postal Service established a Post Office at a location near the center of the current community.

Cedar Lake was settled by pioneers in the mid-19th century and by 1870, the Cedar Lake Post Office was established, giving the area its name.

On July 7, 1870, a U. S. Post Office opened at the county line with Genesee County on the north side of Wilard Road at the rail tracks as Hughesville.

The first official post office was established in 1870 as the South Cottonwood Post Office.

Stanwood's Post Office was established as Centerville in 1870, and the name was changed to Stanwood in 1877 by D. O.

The first public sale of land in the town took place in January 1879 but there were at least ten traders operating in the town by that time, a Post Office in the township having been open since 1875 ( an earlier PO having served the rural area from 1870 to 1873 ).

* 1870: Post Office begins telegraph service.

The General Post Office introduced telegraph services in 1870 and telephone services in 1912.

* Hongkong Post – created in 1870 to replace the Royal Mail services in British Hong Kong ( 1841 – 1870 ); Royal Mail references in Hong Kong disappear after the handover in 1997

The Kaniapiskau Post closed its doors in 1870.

Harden Post Office opened on 1 January 1870.

Canterbury Post Office opened on 22 November 1870 ( it was closed between 1887 and 1892 ).

( www. ryehistoricalsociety. weebly. com / index. html ) The Post Office opened on 18 January 1858 as Tootgarook and was renamed Rye in 1870.

Somerville Post Office opened on 21 November 1870 and closed in 1893.

A Tootgarook Post Office opened in 1858 and was renamed Rye in 1870.

The Post Office opened on 1 August 1853 and was renamed Coburg in January 1870.

The Post Office opened on 8 December 1870 as Hazelglen and was renamed Doreen in 1895.

An Ormond Post Office opened on 1 January 1870 and closed in 1884.

On January 14, 1870, the Army returned with the formation of the Post of Southeast Kansas.

First Supdt. of Post Office of Rail Mail Service was appointed in 1870 & his Headqurter was at Allahabad.

Official decennial censuses have been taken in Hungary since 1870 ; the latest one – in line with the recommendations of the United Nations and the Statistical Office of the European Union – was carried out in 2001.

Several traditions have developed since the Office of Solicitor General was established in 1870.

This involves reviewing US Copyright Office records from 1870 to present and numerous trade publications and databases, and Library of Congress records.

The War Office Act, which Parliament passed in 1870, formally subordinated the office of commander-in-chief of the army to the secretary of state.

Conservative Central Office was founded in 1870.

By the Naturalisation Act 1870, it was made possible for British subjects to renounce their nationality and allegiance, and the ways in which that nationality is lost are defined.

" One major achievement was the Elementary Education Act of 1870.

During the 19th century criminal law reform incrementally reduced the number of capital offences to five ( see Capital punishment in the United Kingdom ), and forfeiture for felony was abolished by the Forfeiture Act 1870.

* 1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.

Luke McRedmond filed a Homestead Act claim for land next to the Sammamish Slough on September 9, 1870, and the following year Warren Perrigo took up land adjacent to him.

President Grant signed the Naturalization Act of 1870 that allowed persons of African descent to become citizens of the United States.

; 1870 – 1891: Under the Elementary Education Act 1870, basic State Education becomes free for every child under the age of 10.

He also instituted the Cardwell Reforms in 1869 that made peacetime flogging illegal and, in 1870, the Irish Land Act and the Forster's Education Act.

He also passed the Second Land Act ( the First, in 1870, had entitled Irish tenants, if evicted, to compensation for improvements which they had made on their property, but had had little effect ) which gave Irish tenants the " 3Fs " – fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale.

The enabling legislation for the naturalization aspects of the Fourteenth Amendment was the Naturalization Act of 1870, which allowed naturalization of " aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent ", but is silent about other races.

Parliamentary representation began in 1295 and continued until the Reform Act of 1870 when the original borough constituency was disenfranchised for corruption in 1870.

The UK Telegraph Act 1868 for example empowered the Postmaster General to " acquire, maintain and work electric telegraphs " and foreshadowed the 1870 nationalisation of competing British telegraph companies.

In music, valkyries play a major role in " Die Walküre " ( 1870 ) by Richard Wagner ( the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen ), in which the " Ride of the Valkyries " begins Act III.

The United Kingdom passed a Foreign Enlistment Act in 1819, and then the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870, making it unlawful for British subjects to join the armed forces of any state warring with another state at peace with Britain.

After the initial Act of Union in 1867, Manitoba was established by an Act of Parliament on July 15, 1870, originally as an area of land much smaller than the current province.

Forster's 1870 Act, bodies that were popular with Nonconformists and Radicals, replacing them with Local Education Authorities that would administer a state centred system of primary, secondary and technical schools.