* 1870 – 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.

* 1870 – President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U. S. Weather Bureau.

* 1870 – United States Department of Justice US Congress created the Department of Justice

") As a result, African Americans were represented in the U. S. Congress for the first time in American history in 1870.

A second bill was introduced to Congress by Rhode Island Representative Thomas Jenckes on February 25, 1870, and both the Senate and House passed the bill.

After the 1870 census, the South would gain numerous additional representatives in Congress, based on the population of freedmen.

All Southern states were readmitted to representation in Congress by the end of 1870, the last being Georgia.

Despite a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and end of this period, many scholars agree that the process began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna and the end of Napoleonic rule, and ended in 1870 with the Capture of Rome.

The U. S. Army Signal Corps inherited this network between 1870 and 1874 by an act of Congress, and expanded it to the west coast soon afterwards.

* 1870, March 30-The United States Congress readmits Texas into the Union.

* 1870, March 30-The United States Congress readmits Texas into the Union.

He was elected to Congress in December 1870 and served until March 1871.

* Archibald Bard Darragh ( 1840 – 1927 ), Member of Congress from 1901 to 1909, lived in St. Louis from 1870 until the time of his death.

* William F. Birch ( 1870 – 1946 ), former Member of Congress.

Then, in 1870, Congress passed a law that prohibited the use of a Presidential pardon as the basis for claiming sale proceeds, and further said that acceptance of such a pardon was evidence that the person pardoned did provide support to the South and was ineligible to recover sale proceeds.

In 1871, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1870 statute was unconstitutional and that Congress had exceeded its power by invading the province of the judicial branch by prescribing the rule of decision in a particular cause.

During this period, between the 1815 Congress of Vienna ( after the defeat of Napoleonic France ) and the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), Britain reaped the benefits of being the world's sole modern, industrial power.

As early as 1791, Thomas Jefferson proposed that the marks of sailcloth makers could be protected under the Commerce Clause, but it was not until 1870 that Congress first attempted to establish a federal regime for the protection of trademarks.

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

In 1870, copyright functions were centralized in the Library of Congress under the direction of the then Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford.

In 1870, Congress passed a law that centralized the copyright system in the Library of Congress.

At the time of the National Association's Washington Convention of 1870, ten thousand copies of Minor's resolutions were circulating around the audience, with copies placed on every member's desk in Congress.

Further eroded by the European revolutionary upheavals of 1848 with their demands for revision of the Congress of Vienna's frontiers along national lines, the Concert unraveled in the latter half of the 19th century amid successive wars between its participants-the Crimean War ( 1854 – 56 ), the Italian War of Independence ( 1859 ), the Austro-Prussian War ( 1866 ) and the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 71 ).

To resolve this uncertainty, various statutes were passed to set the date of reception as July 15, 1870, the date of the transfer of these two territories to Canada.

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.

Cricket in the 1860s underwent an evolutionary phase with the legalisation of overarm bowling in June 1864 and Grace himself said it was " no exaggeration to say that, between 1860 and 1870, English cricket passed through its most critical period " with the game in transition and " it was quite a revolutionary period so far as its rules were concerned ".

The 15th Amendment, proposed in late February 1869 and passed in early February 1870, decreed that the right to vote could not be denied because of " race, color, or previous condition of servitude ".

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.

On March 23, 1870 the Legislature passed an Act authorizing a Board of Immigration and Thomas was named Commissioner of Immigration.

On March 23, 1870 the Legislature passed an Act authorizing a Board of Immigration and Thomas was named Commissioner of Immigration.

In 1870, when the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition passed through the area they began calling the river Gardiner -- a phonetic error.

The impetus to protect the land began in 1870 and by 1885, legislation had been passed to protect the land.

Reform began tentatively in 1870 and continued for fifty years during which a number of Irish Land Acts were passed ( see also Land War ).

Paris was not to be taken ( in 1870, the Siege of Paris had lasted for months ) but was to be passed by the right wing to the west of the city.

In 1870, the legislature passed the Manitoba Act, allowing the Red River Colony to enter Confederation as the province of Manitoba.

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.

In September 1870, when Isaacs was just 15 years old, he passed his examination as a pupil teacher and taught at the school from then until 1873.

In 1870, the Legislature of New Brunswick passed an Act, authorising the County of Charlotte to issue debentures to pay a bonus of $ 15, 000 to the Houlton Branch Railway Company, to encourage it to build the railway.

He passed a year in Ithaca Academy, and entered Cornell in 1870, in the so-called classical course.

Tasmania passed an intercolonial freetrade act in 1870 during his premiership, but the question made no headway on the mainland.

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

On May 31, 1870 Congress passed an Enforcement Act based on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is sometimes included with the three Acts passed in 1870 – 71 when referring to the Force Acts.

The Storting in 1870 passed a change in the constitution which granted the ministers admission to Parliament when asked, but the King refused to sanction the law, stating that it was premature so few years after the yearly-sessions-reform.

In 1870, after much cajoling from town leaders, residents passed bonds that brought a rail spur from Cheyenne.