In 1984, scientists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston x-rayed Millet's 1870 painting The Young Sherpherdess looking for minor changes, and discovered that it was painted over Captivity.

From 1870 Degas increasingly painted ballet subjects, partly because they sold well and provided him with needed income after his brother's debts had left the family bankrupt.

Although Degas painted a number of Jewish subjects from 1865 to 1870, his anti-Semitism became apparent by the mid-1870s.

The first of these, Chill October ( 1870 ) was painted in Perth, near his wife's family home.

In 1870 Millais returned to full landscape pictures, and over the next twenty years painted a number of scenes of Perthshire where he was annually found hunting and fishing from August until late into the autumn each year.

Rossetti again represented Lizzie Siddal as Dante's Beatrice in one of his most famous works, Beata Beatrix, ( 1864 – 1870 ) which he painted as a memorial to her after her death.

After a further trip to Africa, abridged by the necessities of his position as a pensioner of the school of Rome, he painted Judith, then, in 1870, Salomé, and, as a work due from the Roman school, dispatched from Tangier the large canvas, Execution Without Hearing Under the Moorish Kings, in which the painter had played with the blood of the victim as if he were a jeweller toying with rubies.

Between 1846 and 1870 passenger locomotives were painted ' hunter green ' with some engines being finished with black lining.

The adjacent hall (" Aula ") was adorned with frescoes painted in 1870.

In 1870, he painted a canvas of Le Dernier Jour de Corinthe ( Last Day of Corinth ), which obliquely commented on the situation of the besieged Paris, by describing the last day before the Roman legions looted and burned the ancient GreeK city.

In 1861 Ge painted The Last Supper ; using the image for his central figure of Christ a photograph taken by the famous Russian photographer Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky ( 1819 – 1898 ) of Levitsky's cousin Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen ( 1812 – 1870 ); the pro-Western writer and outstanding public figure.

Around the same time Neal painted Retour de Chasse ( 1870 ) which later became known as After the Chase, an oil-on-canvas still life that became one of his first great successes.

Long was greatly influenced by the paintings of Velasquez and other Spanish masters, and his earlier pictures, such as ' La Posada ' ( 1864 ) and ' Lazarilla and the blind beggar ' ( 1870 ), were painted under Spanish influence.

" Upon his return, he organised the " Committee for the Better Diffusion and Advancement of Learning among Muhammadans " ( Muslims ) on December 26, 1870.

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

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.

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.

RWTH Aachen University, established as Polytechnicum in 1870, is one of the Germany's Universities of Excellence with strong emphasis on technological research, especially for electrical and mechanical engineering, computer sciences, physics, and chemistry.

* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

In 1870 he was appointed a member of the commission for drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work.

* Paraguayan War ( 1864 – 1870 ): Over 200, 000 Brazilians fought on this conflict, which is considered as the most serious in Brazilian history.

The great eleven volume Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum compiled between 1870 and 1954 is the definitive reference work for the study of British Satirical prints.

The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

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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.

* 1870 – The 12. 8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.

The Latin motto is literally translated as " Pray and work " and has been in use since 1870.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

His Shakespearian Grammar ( 1870 ) is a permanent contribution to English philology.

Emperor Kōbun was named the 39th emperor by the Meiji government in 1870 ; and since the late 19th century, he is known by the posthumous name accorded to him by Meiji scholars.

* 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 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.

* 1870 – In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.

Former Maryland Governor Oden Bowie named the then mile and one-half ( 2. 41 km ) race in honor of the colt Preakness from Milton Holbrook Sanford's Preakness Stables in Preakness, Wayne Township, New Jersey, who won the Dinner Party Stakes on the day Pimlico opened ( October 25, 1870 ).

Pimlico officially opened in the fall of 1870, with the colt Preakness winning the first running of the Dinner Party Stakes.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

On 25 June 1870, he was recalled to Paris, where his mother abdicated in his favour, in the presence of a number of Spanish nobles who had tied their fortunes to that of the exiled queen.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ( 19 July 1870 ), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color.

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

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.

This anathema was later one of the main arguments against Papal infallibility in the discussions surrounding the First Vatican Council of 1870, where the episode was not ultimately regarded as contrary to the proposed dogma.

During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital, from 1870 – 1874, where his father was professor at the Columbia Theological Seminary.

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.

In 1870, Engels moved to London where he and Marx lived until Marx's death in 1883.

That same year he received a scholarship and traveled to Berlin, where he stayed from September to February 1870.

He also became an illustrator for the Breton poet Tristan Corbière's books ; among other works he made an etching for La Pastorale de Conlie, Corbière's poem about the camp of Conlie where many Breton soldiers died in 1870.

In 1870, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar, daughter of Samuel and Julia Webster Appleton, and widow of Newbold Edgar.

At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Degas enlisted in the National Guard, where his defense of Paris left him little time for painting.

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.

In 1870, his mother moved with her sons to Nizhny Novgorod, where he started the third class of the gymnasium.

After the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870, many of the Métis moved from Manitoba to the Fort Carlton region of the North-West Territories, where they founded a settlement at Batoche on the South Saskatchewan River.

Here it remained until 1870 when, following a courthouse fire in 1869 and the formation of Geneva County ( which took the southern third of Dale County ), the county seat was moved to the town of Ozark, where it remains.

At the start of World War I strategy was dominated by the offensive thinking that had been in vogue since 1870, despite the more recent experiences of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) and Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), where the machine gun demonstrated its defensive capabilities.

An entire tree was cut down, moved in pieces, and relocated to the courtyard where the Harvard 1870 graduation scene was shot.

When he was relieved of the command of the Squadron in 1869, he returned to the Washington Navy Yard where he served until his death in 1870.

He had supposedly gotten into trouble in Columbia County, in northern Florida to which his parents had migrated sometime after 1870, and had then gone out to the Indian territory ( later known as the Oklahoma Territory ) where he allegedly killed Belle Starr, herself allegedly an outlaw.

In 1870, railroad tracks were built directly through the site, and the boulder was hauled to the top of the Palisades, where it remains today, located just off the Boulevard East.