* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

After his discharge from the army in August 1865, Corbett went back to work as a hatter, first in Boston, later in Connecticut, and by 1870 in New Jersey.

The Coral Sea Islands were first charted in 1803 ; in the 1870 and 1880s the islands were mined for guano but the absence of a permanent supply of fresh water prevented long-term habitation.

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

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.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

In 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world.

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

* 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 current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.

Although the Colorado Agricultural College was founded in 1870, the first classes were held in 1879.

On 11 October 1870 two provisional battalions disembarked at Toulon, the first time the Foreign Legion had been deployed in France itself.

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

It was here that their first child, Harold Ennis Gardner, was born in 1870.

In 1870 Charles Francis built the first memorial presidential library in the United States, to honor his father.

* 1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey (" A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion " by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly ).

At first, these were intended to be used primarily for reconnaissance in support of armies on the ground, just as balloons had been during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871 and in the Napoleonic Wars.

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* 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

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

In 1870, Victoria for the first time saw the introduction of regular premiership matches of Australian Football.

These two forms helped to shape the federal government, first in Switzerland, then in the United States in 1776, in Canada in 1867 and in Germany in 1870 and in the 20th century, Australia.

On 25 December 1958, he became the first pope since 1870 to make pastoral visits in his Diocese of Rome, when he visited children infected with polio at the Bambino Gesù Hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital.

British Imperial troops remained in New Zealand until February 1870, during the later stage of the New Zealand Wars, by which time settler units had replaced them.

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.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

The family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1870 for William to minister a small congregation.

* 1870 – William Laurel Harris, American mural painter and writer ( d. 1924 )

* Echard, William E. Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852 – 1870 ( 1985 ) online edition

* 1870 – Michael William Balfe, Irish composer ( b. 1808 )

* William J. Seymour ( 1870 – 1922 ) Azusa Street Mission founder ( Azusa Street Revival )

The only UK company still producing traditional parchment and vellum is William Cowley ( Est 1870 ) who are based in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire.

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs ( 1870 ).

The Denver and Rio Grande Railway ( D & RG ) was incorporated on October 27, 1870 by General William Jackson Palmer and a board of four directors.

* William Jackson Palmer, 1870 – 1883

Around 1870 – 80, William Steinway ( born Wilhelm Steinweg, a son of H. E.

A decorous Corybantian dance, as pictured in William Smith ( lexicographer ) | William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities | Dictionary of Antiquities ( 1870 ).

* William Thomas Freemantle 1870 –?

After the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), William Mahone, a civil engineer and hero of the Battle of the Crater, was the driving force in the linkage of 3 railroads, including the V & T, across the southern tier of Virginia to form the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), a new line extending from Norfolk to Bristol, Virginia in 1870.

* Charles Peter Mason, " Stobaeus " entry, in William Smith, ( 1870 ), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

* William Smith ( 1870 ), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

* A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities edited by William Smith ( 1870 ).

William Edward Forster, Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, proposed an Elementary Education Bill in January 1870.

After the Civil War, under the leadership of former Confederate General William " Billy " Mahone, the Southside Railroad was rebuilt, and in 1870, was combined with the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to form Mahone's Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), which stretched 400 miles across the southern tier of Virginia from Norfolk on Hampton Roads to Bristol.

William Lawson was the first person elected to the Missouri legislature from Carter County in 1864 and served until 1870, at which time he was succeeded by F. M.

* William Hugh Smith ( 1826 – 1899 ), Governor of Alabama ( 1868 – 1870 )