This twentieth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, held three centuries after the Council of Trent, opened on 8 December 1869 and adjourned on 20 October 1870.

One month later, on 20 October 1870, Pope Pius IX suspended the Council indefinitely.

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

Metz remained under siege until 27 October 1870, when 173, 000 French troops were located there finally surrendered.

Lie met with Klein every day from October 1869 through 1872: in Berlin from the end of October 1869 to the end of February 1870, and in Paris, Göttingen and Erlangen in the subsequent two years ( ibid, p. 2 ).

Li authored a series of articles in New Youth on the subject of the October Revolution which had just occurred in Russia, during which the communist Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin ( 1870 – 1924 ) had seized power.

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Robert Edward Lee ( January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870 ) was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

The New York Times ; October 13, 1870

* 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.

:*" The Vision of Tom Chuff ", from All the Year Round, October 1870.

# Texas ( February 18, 1870, after having rejected it on October 27, 1866 )

* October 24 – Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer ( b. 1870 )

* October 25 – Frank Norris, American novelist ( b. 1870 )

* October 3 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1870 )

* October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar ( b. 1870 )

* October 7 – Marie Lloyd, English singer ( b. 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.

Stanton seemed to agree ; in an address to the National Woman Suffrage Association ( NWSA ) convention in 1870, on the subject of the women's rights movement, she said " The movement in England, as in America, may be dated from the first National Convention, held at Worcester, Mass., October, 1850.

This fire tower replaced a series of observation buildings, the original being a flimsy lookout stand built in 1870 on the same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 1871, August 1872 and January 1874 that swept through the early mining camp.

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 ).

He was baptised in the Chapel of Christiansborg Palace on 31 October 1870 by the Bishop of Zealand, Hans Lassen Martensen.

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the city again became strategically important thanks to its geographical position, and was occupied by the Prussians on 13 October that year.

Most notably, he traveled around the world in fourteen months and two days from August, 1870 to October, 1871.

In October 1890, a fire destroyed about a third of Leavenworth.

After an abortive meeting with northern Plains Indians in September, the commission gathered at Fort Leavenworth ( Kansas ) in early October and traveled from there by rail to Fort Harker.

It is one of three major prisons built on Fort Leavenworth property, the others being the federal United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, four miles ( 6 km ) to the south, and the military Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, which opened on 5 October 2010.

In October 1990, while Kagame was at Fort Leavenworth, the RPF started an invasion of Rwanda.

On October 5, 1856, Brevet Major Hunt commanded Company M, 2nd U. S. Artillery from Fort Leavenworth, that protected the polls at Eaton, Kansas, during the territorial legislature elections.

On October 25 the three warriors sought by the expedition surrendered themselves, were held for a year at Fort Leavenworth, then released.

Hoge moved to his son's farm in Kansas in October 1975 and he died suddenly on October 29, 1979 at Munson Army Hospital, Fort Leavenworth.

Hawkins was Commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College, then known as the United States Infantry and Cavalry School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas between October 1894 and April 1898.

In October 2006, scientists from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully created synthetically ununoctium ( Uuo ), the seventh element in group 18, by bombarding californium ( Cf ) with calcium ( Ca ).

* October 2 – Jacques Cartier reaches the area ( island ) in the St. Lawrence River that eventually becomes Montreal, Quebec.

A professional version was released in October 2009, developed by the same author, Lawrence Philips.

Award of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory contract to LLNS LLC took effect October 1, 2007, rounding out Bechtel's control of the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities including LANL ( design ), LLNL ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), and Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ).

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

In October 1917, Lawrence, as part of a general effort to divert Turkish military resources away from the British advance before the Third Battle of Gaza, led a small force of Syrians and Arabians in defending Petra against a much larger combined force of Turks and Germans.

During the Second World War, the Battle of the St. Lawrence involved a number of submarine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle and Cabot Strait from May to October 1942, September 1943, and again in October and November 1944.

The first decay of atoms of ununoctium was observed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) by Yuri Oganessian and his group in Dubna, Russia, in 2002 .< ref name =" pp2002 "> On October 9, 2006, researchers from JINR and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of California, USA, working at the JINR in Dubna, announced that they had indirectly detected a total of three ( possibly four ) nuclei of ununoctium-294 ( one or two in 2002 and two more in 2005 ) produced via collisions of californium-249 atoms and calcium-48 ions:

* " Thomas Lawrence: the new romantic-review " Richard Holmes reviews the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, The Guardian, 16 October 2010

Created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on October 21, 1817, Lawrence County was formed from lands previously part of Hickman and Giles Counties.

Independence County is Arkansas's ninth county, formed on October 20, 1820, from a portion of Lawrence County and named to honor the Declaration of Independence.

* Lawrence Joseph Giacoletto ( November 14, 1916 in Clinton, Indiana ;- October 4, 2004 in Okemos, Michigan ) was an American electrical engineer and inventor.

Sir Barnes Wallis died on 30 October 1979 and was buried in St Lawrence Churchyard, just a few yards from KGV fields.

Lawrence Kohlberg ( October 25, 1927 – January 19, 1987 ) was a Jewish American psychologist born in Bronxville, New York, he was the son of Alfred Kohlberg, a Jewish man, and of his second wife, Charlotte Albrecht, a Protestant woman.

On October 13, 1993, 42-year-old Paul F. Lawrence was fatally injured when a forklift tipped over onto him.

" By October of that year, " Lawrence Di Rita, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, said ' prewar estimates that may be borne out in fact are likelier to be more lucky than smart.

On 23 October 1916 at Hamra in the Wadi Safra, the first encounter took place between Faisal and Captain T. E. Lawrence, a relatively junior British intelligence officer from Cairo.

Furthermore, the American ships controlled Lake Ontario, making an attack impossible until the British launched the first-rate ship of the line HMS St. Lawrence on 15 October, too late in the year for major operations.

Abbandando had two sons: Lawrence, born on December 20, 1927 out of wedlock, and Frank Abbandando Jr., on October 17, 1935.