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.

" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.

He made many diplomatic visits throughout Europe and the Americas, including an extensive visit to the United States in 1936 where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed a personal envoy – who did not require Senate confirmation – to the Holy See in December 1939, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power.

In the first sexual revolution ( 1870 – 1910 ), Victorian morality lost its universal appeal.

According to them, Sylt lost an annual 0. 4 m of land in the north and 0. 7 m in the south from 1870 to 1951.

The architect Philip Hardwick ( 1792 – 1870 ) who was a friend of Turner's and also the son of the artist's tutor, Thomas Hardwick, was in charge of making his funeral arrangements and wrote to those who knew Turner to tell them at the time of his death that, " I must inform you, we have lost him.

In 1870, when Lee County was formed, again Owsley County lost some of its territory.

Once the county seat of Dale County, Newton lost this distinction to nearby Ozark in 1870, and is now a small farming community.

By the 1870 ’ s Mary was telling her students “ Some day I will have a church of my own .” In 1879 she and her students established the Church of Christ, Scientist, “ to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing .” In 1892 at Eddy ’ s direction, the church reorganized as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, “ designed to be built on the Rock, Christ ....” Some years later in 1881, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught approximately 800 students in Boston, Massachusetts between the years 1882 and 1889.

Among the historic buildings lost were the American House and the Moyer-Kantner Funeral Home, both dating from 1870, and the Herstine Building.

The Second French Empire came to an end in 1870 after it had lost the war against Prussia, causing Emperor Napoleon III to lose his throne.

* Battle of Wörth ( August 6, 1870 ): French heavy cavalry brigade, with two squadrons of light cavalry, charges Prussian infantry in the village of Moiseront and lost 800 men.

In 1870, it lost its city status.

Alexander Stewart, the American collector, commissioned Yvon to paint The Reconciliation of the North and the South ( lost ) in 1870.

Pierpont subsequently was elected to one term in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1870, but lost his seat when the Democrats took control of the state.

He rode in the All-England bicycle race for £ 20 given by the Wolverhampton Sun Bicycle Association on 26 and 28 November 1870, when he lost in a one-mile race to Sheldon.

After January Uprising, Ogrodzieniec, like many other locations of Lesser Poland, lost its town charter ( 1870 ) and remained a village until 1973.

Sir Henry Durand, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, lost his life here in 1870, from injuries received while passing on an elephant under a gateway.

In the 1870 Salt Lake City Mayoral race, Liberal Henry W. Lawrence lost to Daniel H. Wells 321 to 2301.

During the 19th and 20th centuries the castle lost some of its Gothic and Baroque features, and in 1870 its eastern and southern wings were demolished after extensive deterioration.

Mahone was a controlling force in Virginia politics from around 1870 until 1883, when the Readjusters lost control to white conservative Democrats.

Burn's first major tournament was the Third Challenge Cup of the British Chess Association ( London 1870 ), where he surprised the pundits by tying for first with John Wisker, ahead of Joseph Henry Blackburne and others, but lost the playoff to Wisker.

The objective of the French Plan XVII was to recapture the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, lost in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, pinning the German forces on the Rhine, and to attack the German centre through the southern Ardennes.

In 1870, a few years after the January Uprising, the town finally lost its city charter, which has not yet been regained.

In 1870 its maximum area was 28, 000 square kilometers.

The club played its first games in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings and were founded professionally in 1876.

Another example is its self-description as the " Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church " in the 24 April 1870 Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith of the First Vatican Council.

The Prussian Army issued identification tags for its troops at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.

Mussolini claimed that capitalism had degenerated in three stages, starting with dynamic or heroic capitalism ( 1830 – 1870 ), followed by static capitalism ( 1870 – 1914 ), and reaching its final form of decadent capitalism or " supercapitalism " beginning in 1914.

Albert Barnes ( 1798 – 1870 ) said regarding its authenticity:

The first submarine telegraph cable started its operation in Gibraltar in 1870.

Between 1820 and 1870, HBC issued its own paper money.

Thanks to its many entrepreneurs and engineers, and its large stock of easily mined coal, Scotland became a world centre for engineering, shipbuilding, and locomotive construction, with steel replacing iron after 1870.

During the Second French Empire, between 1852 and 1870, the French economy grew ; by 1870 the museum had added 20, 000 new pieces to its collections, and the Pavillon de Flore and the Grande Galérie were remodelled under architects Louis Visconti and Hector Lefuel.

Semantics as a linguistic discipline has its beginning in the middle of the 19th century, and because linguistics at the time was predominantly diachronic, thus lexical semantics was diachronic too – it dominated the scene between the years of 1870 and 1930.

Sydsvenska Dagbladet, founded in 1870, is Malmö's largest daily newspaper, and also one of its larger employers ( see section Economy ).

* 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau ( later renamed the National Weather Service ) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

From 1870 to 1980, Illinois used a semi-proportional cumulative voting system to elect its State House of Representatives.

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.

Paraguay was occupied by its enemies in 1870 ; the countryside was in virtual ruin, the labor force was decimated, peasants were pushed into the environs of Asunción from the east and south, and the modernization of the preceding three decades was undone.

Despite its male domination, women's rowing can be traced back to the early 19th century, and an image of a women's double scull race made the cover of Harper's Weekly in 1870.

* The 1870 Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus of the First Vatican Council reaffirmed that " it has always been necessary for every Church, e. g., the faithful throughout the world — to be in agreement with ( the Roman Church ) because of its preeminent authority " and that consequently the bishop whom the Church in Rome acknowledges as its head " is the successor of blessed Peter, the prince of the apostles, true vicar of Christ, head of the whole Church and father and teacher of all Christian people.

In June 1870, Laura Curtis Bullard, a Brooklyn-based writer whose parents became wealthy from selling a popular morphine-containing patent medicine called " Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ", bought the rights to The Revolution for one dollar, with Anthony assuming its $ 10, 000 debt, an amount equal to $ in current value.

At its founding on March 24, 1870, the state of New York granted the University its charter independent of Genesee College.