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In 1870, Rockefeller formed Standard Oil Company of Ohio and started his strategy of buying up the competition and consolidating all oil refining under one company.
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* 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
# William Goodsell Rockefeller ( 1870 – 1922 )
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The Northwest Territories entered the Canadian Confederation July 15, 1870, but the current borders were formed April 1, 1999, with the creation of Nunavut.
They were the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 ; the Weather Bureau, formed in 1870 ; and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, formed in 1871.
Clay County was formed in 1870 by combining pieces from surrounding Jackson and Overton counties.
Loudon County was formed on May 27, 1870 from portions of Roane, Monroe and Blount counties.
Grenada County was formed in 1870 and included nearly two tiers of townships which had formerly been the southern part of Yalobusha County.
Alcorn County was formed in 1870 from portions of Tippah and Tishomingo counties.
In 1870, when Lee County was formed, again Owsley County lost some of its territory.
Lee County was formed in 1870.
In October 1870, the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad completed the first railroad from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, and a town formed around the wood and water stop called Page's Station, then Cotati.
The Blue Rapids Town Company was formed, and by the end of 1870 the population was about 250.
When Tangipahoa Parish was formed partly from Livingston Parish in 1870, Springfield was no longer a central location in Livingston parish, but sat along the new border between Livingston and Tangipahoa Parishes.
Almont was the heart of a pioneering Scottish Settlement that formed in the 1830s ( roughly 1830 to 1870 ).
Hamilton County was formed in 1870 and voters elected to move the county seat to Aurora in 1875.
Harrisville township was formed in 1870 from lands ceded by Marlborough, Dublin, Hancock, Nelson, and Roxbury.
Flemington town was formed within the township on March 14, 1870, and became an independent borough on April 7, 1910.
Red Bank was originally formed as a Town on March 17, 1870, from portions of Shrewsbury Township.
When King Victor Emmanuel II seized the city in 1870, Pope Pius IX refused to recognize the newly formed Kingdom of Italy.
In 1870, twelve people, known as the " 12 apostles ", formed a syndicate to purchase the land for around £ 1 10s an acre (£ 371 per km² ).
After the military defeat of France by Germany in 1870, Ferry formed the idea of acquiring a great colonial empire, principally for the sake of economic exploitation.
The French public resented the Prussian victory and demanded " Revanche pour Sadova " or " Revenge for Sadowa ", which formed part of the build-up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
This formed the basis for the Manitoba Act of May 12, 1870, which admitted Manitoba into the Canadian confederation on July 15.
In 1870, the Catholics formed their own political party, the Centre Party, which generally supported unification and most of Bismarck's policies.
After eight more ministerial changes, culminating in the anti-dynastic agitation of 1870 – 1871 ( provoked by the Liberals in the context of the Franco-Prussian War ; see also Republic of Ploieşti ), Catargiu formed, for the first time in Romanian history, a stable Conservative cabinet, which lasted until 1876.
1870 and Standard
Previously, the Standard used by Victorian Governors after 1870 had been the Union Jack with the Badge of the State of Victoria emblazoned in the centre.
The Standard gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, with its reporting events of the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, all contributing to a rise in circulation.
In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897 .< ref >
In 1870, that company became Standard Oil.
Standard of the Governor 1870 – 1876
From 1840 to 1870 it published a weekly newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard.
* Standard Oil ( 1870 – 1911 ), a predominant integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company ; dissolved by the US Supreme Court
By 1870, Standard Oil was producing about 10 % of the United States output of refined oil.
1870 and Oil
Raja Ravi Varma Shakuntala ( Raja Ravi Varma ) | Shakuntala ( 1870 ) Oil on canvas.
File: Lungo L ' ofanto ( 1870 )-De Nittis. JPG | Oil painting Lungo l ' Ofanto ( 1870 ) by Giuseppe de Nittis ( 1848-1884 ), Pinacoteca De Nittis, Barletta, Italy
1870 and Company
The new Dominion of Canada acquired the territories of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870.
Title to the Northwest Territories was transferred by the Hudson ’ s Bay Company in 1870 and the province of Manitoba ( the first to be established by the Parliament of Canada ) was in the same year the first created out of it.
Dar es Salaam fell into decline after Majid's death in 1870, but was revived in 1887, when the German East Africa Company established a station there.
International circuits were provided by Cable & Wireless, present in Gibraltar since 1870 as the Falmouth, Malta, Gibraltar Telegraph Company.
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 ).
* 1870 – Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
By 1870, The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company was the world ’ s largest dealer and consumer of graphite and later became the contemporary Dixon Ticonderoga pencil and art supplies company.
The telegraph lines from Britain to India were connected in 1870 ( those several companies combined to form the Eastern Telegraph Company in 1872 ).
Woodhull, Claflin & Company opened in 1870 with the assistance of the wealthy Cornelius Vanderbilt, an admirer of Woodhull's skills as a medium and rumored to have been her sister Tennie's lover, having seriously considered marrying her.
From 1870 to 1890, the U. S. government leased them to the Alaska Commercial Company.
The remainder of modern-day Canada was made up of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory ( both of which were controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company and sold to Canada in 1870 ) and the Arctic Islands, which were under direct British control and became a part of Canada in 1880.
The Dominion acquired Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company and the North-Western Territory from the Crown in 1869, and took ownership on December 1 of that year, merging them and naming them North-West Territories ( though final payment to the Hudson's Bay Company did not occur until 1870 ).
The East India Company took over Elm Grove in 1870 and renamed it the " Royal India Asylum ".
In 1870, the county was renamed for Matthew Cowley, First Lieutenant in Company I, 9th Kansas Cavalry, who died at Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 7, 1864.
According to the indenture dated 25 January 1870 James Cole Copeman conveyed to The Loddon Town Hall Company ( Limited ), for the sum for £ 30, the site on which to build the Town Hall.
In 1870, the now-American owned Alaska Commercial Company ( formerly the Russian-American Company ) was awarded a 20-year sealing lease by the U. S. Government, and provided housing, food and medical care to the Aleuts in exchange for seal harvesting.
In 1867, Elkhart Hydraulic Company built the first hydroelectric dam across the St. Joseph River and by 1870, it powered the city.
Between 1866 and 1870 the Des Moines Valley Railroad Company constructed tracks between Des Moines and Fort Dodge.
In the summer of 1870, the first coal mines were opened by the Osage Carbon, Coal & Mining Company.
New Straitsville was originally founded in 1870 as a coal mining town by the New Straitsville Mining Company.
The Farmville Volunteer Fire Department is designated as Company 1 in Prince Edward County after being the first fire department established in the county in 1870.
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