The section above Northbrook Bridge was sold to developers, and on 21 March 1870, the old company was wound up.

The original developers all built substantial mansions along Irving Park Boulevard between 1870 and 1874.

Bliss was born in New York in 1870 and in 1891 began work in the library of the College of the City of New York ( now City College of the City University of New York ).

They were built for the China tea trade and began with the Falcon in 1859, and finished with the last ships built in 1870.

This included the export of cotton and the development of diverse workmanships, such as the creation of the 2 secondary schools, the Ceará and Mucuripe Lighthouse in 1845, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Fortaleza in 1861, Prainha Seminary in 1864, Public Library in 1867 and the Public transportation network in 1870, which began with the construction of Railroad of Baturité.

When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.

He began building a reputation as England's most promising young composer, composing a symphony, a concerto, and several overtures, among them the Overture di Ballo, in 1870.

The number of pianos manufactured in England doubled between 1870 and 1890 as more people began to play parlour music at home and more theatres and concert halls opened.

The industrial revolution began about 1870 as Meiji period leaders decided to catch up with the West.

The city began to move further south as epidemics in 1835 and 1870 encouraged more people to move far south of the port.

Archaeological excavations in the Kerameikos began in 1870 under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society.

The formation of the Old Catholic communion of Germans, Austrians and Swiss began in 1870 at a public meeting held in Nuremberg under the leadership of A. Döllinger, following the First Vatican Council.

European and Middle Eastern immigrants began making their way to Paraguay in the decades following the Paraguayan War ( 1870 onward ), in which aftermath only 28, 000 men and 200, 000 women had survived, the reason why Paraguay had since then a high rate of illegitimate births.

Following 1870 however they began a campaign for better education facilities in the region.

The University of California was founded in 1868, and by 1870 Toland Medical School began negotiating an affiliation with the new public university.

Grace was still 15 when the 1864 season began and was 22 when the 1870 season ended.

The Department of Justice officially began operations on July 1, 1870.

But on 19 July 1870 the Franco-Prussian War began and Klein ( who was Prussian ) had to leave France very quickly.

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 opportunity to eliminate the Papal States came when the Franco-Prussian War began in July 1870, and Napoleon III had to recall his garrison from Rome.

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.

In July 1870, the Franco-Prussian War began.

The practice began in 1909 when a horse and rider weather vane sat atop the old Members ' Clubhouse, which was constructed when Pimlico opened in 1870.

In 1870, when, goaded by Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck, he began the Franco-Prussian War.

These dogs began to find their way into America as early as 1870 where they became known as Pit Dog, Pit Bull Terrier, later American Bull Terrier, and still later as a Yankee terrier.

With the advent of the Utah Central Rail Road in 1870, a transition to mechanized agriculture and a surge of commerce, banking, improved roads, new water systems, and electrification of homes began.

In 1870, during an attempt to free Sicily, he was arrested and imprisoned in Gaeta.

It took place in April 1870, and proved a failure just as rapid and complete as the attempt of 1866.

No further attempt to utilize the impressive water power was made until 1869 – 1870, when a colony of about 50 families from Genesee County, New York moved in, purchased land and water power rights, and began establishing a community.

At length, having failed in an attempt to organize a revolution at Belleville on 7 February 1870, was compelled to flee from France.

Because Laura was, in fact, 2 to 3½ years old while her family lived in Indian Territory during 1869 – 1870, and did not remember the incidents herself, Laura did more historical research on this novel than on any other novel she wrote, in an attempt to have all details as correct as possible.

According to Ernest Belfort Bax, Freemasons were responsible for the last serious attempt at conciliation between Versailles and the Paris Commune on 21 April 1870.

During 5 August 1870 the French were concentrated in a selected position running nearly north and south along the western banks of the Sauer Bach on the left front of the German III army, which was moving south in an attempt to find them.

Nordenskiöld's participation in three geological expeditions to Spitsbergen, followed by longer Arctic explorations in 1867, 1870, 1872 and 1875, led him to attempt the discovery of the long-sought Northeast Passage.

The Land Act of 1870 stands out at the first attempt to resolve problems of tenants rights in Ireland and the 1881 Act went even further to inspire campaigners even in Wales.

Blanqui's predilection for violence was illustrated in 1870 by two unsuccessful armed demonstrations: one on 12 January at the funeral of Victor Noir, the journalist shot by Pierre Bonaparte ; the other on 14 August, when he led an attempt to seize some guns from a barracks.

From 1870 and 1872 it began to be played in the London sporting clubs in an attempt to supplant the card games formerly in vogue.

In the spirit of loyalty which had guided his whole career, he made no attempt to justify his conduct in 1870.

As a result of an attempt by Grousset to challenge Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte to a duel during 1870, Grousset's second, Victor Noir, was shot and killed by Bonaparte during a quarrel.

In 1870 his elder brother and predecessor Barghash bin Said had him imprisoned for the ( alleged ) entanglement in a coup attempt.

In 1870 Parlichev translated his award-winning poem " The Serdar " into Bulgarian in an attempt to popularize his earlier works, which were written in Greek, among the Bulgarian audience.

Ten years later the congregations were brought under one rule by the formation of the United Synagogue ( 1870 ), in the charter of which an attempt was made to give the Chief Rabbi autocratic powers over the doctrines to be taught in the Jewish communities throughout the British empire.

When diamonds were discovered in the Vaal River in the 1870s the former Transvaal Government established a settlement on the banks of the river in 1870, in an attempt to control and alleviate land disputes over diamond discoveries further down the Vaal River.

The first attempt at creating the council came with the appointment of Francis Godschall Johnson by Lieutenant Governor Adams George Archibald on October 21, 1870.

Appeals to the General Assembly to oppose the bill on grounds that an out-of-state corporation should not be granted a charter in the state were successful in 1869 and 1870, and an attempt by the federal Congress to grant the charter was defeated by states ' rights legislators there.

The battle was part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace, which the French had been forced to cede to the newly formed German Empire following France's defeat by Prussia and other independent German states in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.