On 25 December 1958, he became the first pope since 1870 to make pastoral visits in his Diocese of Rome, when he visited children infected with polio at the Bambino Gesù Hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital.

Royal Navy representatives visited Fiume for a demonstration in late 1869, and in 1870 a batch of torpedoes was ordered.

On 17 April 1870 Richard Wagner visited Bayreuth, because he had read about the Margrave Opera House, whose great stage seemed fitting for his works.

In 1866 Daubigny visited England, eventually returning because of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.

He briefly visited Tasmania in 1870 at the request of the Argus to experience at first hand the settings of articles he was writing on the convict period.

The hall was scheduled to be completed by Christmas Day 1870 and the Queen visited a few days beforehand to inspect.

He visited Singapore and Java in 1870 and British India during 1870 – 1872 to see the administration of British colonies.

In 1870 he visited the United States, where ( with the exception of a visit to London in 1872 ) he remained till his death.

This according to Victor Guérin, who visited the place in the 1870 ´ s, and described it.

In January 1870, in order to gain support for the treaty, President Grant visited Sen. Sumner's Washington home and mistakenly believed that Sumner had given consent for the treaty.

In April 1870, Wagner and his wife Cosima visited Bayreuth.

American poet Henry Longfellow visited the school in 1868, Prince and Princess Christian on speech-day in 1870 and The Duke and Duchess of Teck visited in 1891 with their daughter, Princess May ( later Queen Mary ).

By the time Newcomb visited Paris, France in 1870, he was already aware that the table of lunar positions calculated by Peter Andreas Hansen was in error.

In 1870, Red Cloud visited Washington D. C., and met with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely S. Parker ( a Seneca and U. S. Army General ) and President Ulysses S. Grant.

After de Castanhoso, over 300 years passed until the next European, Gerhard Rohlfs, visited Lalibela at some time between 1865 and 1870.

Although trappers and prospectors who visited the Yellowstone region had knowledge of the canyon, the first significant descriptions were publicized after the Cook – Folsom – Peterson Expedition of 1869 and the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition of 1870.

In 1768, the eastern islands were visited by French explorer Bougainville, who named them the Navigator Islands, a name used by missionaries until about 1845 and in official European dispatches until about 1870.

In 1870 he visited the Baraba steppe and in 1878 the Ferghana valley.

Nathorst visited Spitsbergen in 1870 and participated in 1882-83 in the 2nd Dickson Expedition (" Den andra Dicksonska Expeditionen till Grönland ") led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

He finally returned to England in 1868, and in 1870 – 2 published a collection of sketches and descriptions of buildings which he had visited during his travels, under the title of The Auto-Biography of an Octogenarian Architect.

When George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke visited the islands with Dr. George Henry Kingsley in 1870, he was strickened by his wife's charm and beauty and referred the king and queen as " Beauty and the Beast.

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 ).

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Monet and Camille Doncieux had married just before the war ( 28 June 1870 ) and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they had moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871.

The Dominicans of the province of France furnished Lacordaire ( 1835 – 1836, 1843 – 1851 ), Jacques Monsabré ( 1869 – 1870, 1872 – 1890 ), Joseph Ollivier ( 1871, 1897 ), Thomas Etourneau ( 1898 – 1902 ).

After the Unification of Germany, in the Empire Unification of 1870 ( Letter of the Emperor ) and the Founding of the Empire 1871, there was still no common national holiday.

* In 1871, at the society of physicians in Vienna, Carl Stoerk demonstrated an esophagoscope made of two telescopic metal tubes, initially devised by Waldenburg in 1870.

He continued to write humorous verse, stories and plays, including the comic operas Our Island Home ( 1870 ) and A Sensation Novel ( 1871 ), and the blank verse comedies The Princess ( 1870 ), The Palace of Truth ( 1870 ), and Pygmalion and Galatea.

This selection of the King of Spain turned out to play an important role in European and world history, since France opposed a German prince's candidacy to the Spanish throne, and this served as the immediate motive for the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ).

Relations between France and Germany deteriorated, and finally the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) broke out.

Following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), German Cancellor Otto von Bismarck proposed harsh terms for peace — including the German occupation of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine.

In late 1870 to early 1871, the workers of Paris rose up in premature and unsuccessful small-scale uprisings.

During the war against Austria in 1866 as well as in the wars against France in 1870 and 1871, Abeken stayed in the Prussian headquarters.

At first, these were intended to be used primarily for reconnaissance in support of armies on the ground, just as balloons had been during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871 and in the Napoleonic Wars.

In resorting to military means to unify Muscat and Oman, Imam Azzam alienated members of the Ghafiri tribes, who revolted in the 1870 – 1871 period.

In addition, French mobilization for the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871 made it necessary for Napoleon III to withdraw his troops from Rome and The Papal States.

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* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.

The first metallic-cartridge bolt actions in general military service were the Berdan Type II introduced by Russia in 1870, the Mauser Model 1871, and a modified Chassepot, the Gras rifle of 1874 ; all these were single-shots.

Florence and Fleming were initiated August 13, 1870, and initiated 11 other men on June 16, 1871.

A Torpedo Test Station had been set up in Rhode Island in 1870, and an automobile torpedo produced in 1871 was unsuccessful.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin became interested in constructing a " Zeppelin balloon " after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, where he witnessed the French use of balloons to transport mail during the early part of the war.

* Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) resulted in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire.