Notably, this school was attended by Reg Birkett, the dual-code international sportsman, who played football and rugby for England in the 1870s.

During the early 1870s, the major rivals of the London Tecumsehs were the Guelph Maple Leafs who were sponsored by brewer / sportsman George Sleeman, proprietor of Silver Creek Brewery, and the Woodstock Young Canadians.

Norman Shaw published a book of architectural sketches as early as 1858, and his evocative pen-and-ink drawings began to appear in trade journals and artistic magazines in the 1870s.

In the 1870s magazines were built on the east side of the island to house the new explosive dynamite.

The 1870s and 1880s were the heyday of the engraver and lithographer, just before the machine replaced the artist, and Julien's illustrations were sought by magazines around the world.

In the 1870s, the church influence started to diminish slightly with the passing of several laws that took some old roles of the church into the State's hands such as the registry of births and marriages.

Estonian language planners such as Ado Grenzstein ( a journalist active in Estonia in the 1870s – 90s ) tried to use formation ex nihilo, Urschöpfung ; i. e. they created new words out of nothing.

Through the years, armed insurgency took different forms, the last as powerful paramilitary groups such as the White League and the Red Shirts during the 1870s in the Deep South.

The revival began during the 1870s, especially in France with artists such as Odilon Redon, Henri Fantin-Latour and Degas producing much of their work in this manner.

During the 1870s, the Philological Society was concerned with the process of publishing a dictionary with such an immense scope.

Though such laws were instituted shortly after fighting ended in many cases, they only became formalized after the end of Republican-enforced Reconstruction in the 1870s and 80s during a period known as the nadir of American race relations.

: Note: Sometimes the ' 70s is used as shorthand for the 1970s, the 1870s, or other such decades in other centuries – see List of decades

Following the Spanish discovery of great silver deposits at Potosí in Bolivia and in Mexico during the 16th century, international trade came to depend on coins such as the Spanish dollar, Maria Theresa thaler, and, in the 1870s, the United States Trade dollar.

Although there were several challenges to Major League Baseball's primacy in the sport between the 1870s and the Federal League in 1916, the last such challenge was the aborted Continental League in 1960.

Innovators in the visual arts and lithographic process — such as French printing firm Rouchon in the 1840s, Joseph Morse of New York in the 1850s, Frederick Walker of England in the 1870s, and Jules Chéret of France in the 1870s — developed an illustrative style that went beyond tonal, representational art to figurative imagery with sections of bright, flat colors.

An example is Western movies ' placing in frontier society of antebellum or Civil War years of firearms not introduced until the 1870s, such as the Winchester 1873 rifle or the Colt Single Action Army revolver.

The Hays Office had asked Disney to " be certain that the frontispiece of the book mentioned establishes the date in the 1870s ," however, the final film carried no such statement.

Although little remembered today, Pollaky's fame at the time was such that he was mentioned in various books of the 1870s and immortalized as " Paddington " Pollaky for his " keen penetration " in the 1881 comic opera, Patience.

Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot.

It was not until the 1870s that lamps such as the Yablochkov candle were more commonly seen.

Later works, from the 1870s onwards demonstrate Millais's reverence for old masters such as Joshua Reynolds and Velázquez.

The 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s found Oxford a prospering commercial center, with such businesses as Oxford Carriage Factory, Oxford Machine Works, Oxford Valley Mills, Oxford Brewery and several furniture and cabinetry shops.

There were, of course, many individually-owned businesses, such as blacksmith shops, machine shops, bakeries and a miscellany of stores, all of which began to prosper as the nation emerged from the depression of the 1870s.

By the 1870s, the Socastee community was a significant center for the production and distribution of naval stores such as turpentine and tar.

By the 1870s the British Empire had colonies in southern Africa bordering on various Boer settlements, native African kingdoms such as the Zulus, and numerous indigenous tribal areas and states.

The present school colours and school magazine ( The Alleynian ) were established in the 1860s and 1870s, as were school societies such as Debating and Natural Science.

But during her mature prime in the 1870s and ' 80s, Patti had been a more enterprising singer, proving to be an effective actress in those lyric roles that required the summoning forth of deep emotions, such as Gilda in Rigoletto, Leonora in Il trovatore, the title part in Semiramide, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Violetta in La traviata.

With the introduction of more advanced milling practice in the 1860s and 1870s, tasks such as cutting a tap's flutes with a hand file became a thing of the past.

In the 1870s, Anheuser-Busch became the first American brewery to implement pasteurization, which greatly improved the shelf-life and transportability of its beers.

Pissarro, Degas, and American impressionist Mary Cassatt self-published a journal of their original prints in the late 1870s, which contained a large group of their own fine etchings.

In an attempt to reverse the decline, from 1848 to the early 1870s Macau engaged in the infamous trade of coolies ( slave labourers ) as a transit port, shipping locals from southern China to Cuba, Peru, and other South American ports to work on plantations or in mines.

Baseball featuring African American players became professionalized by the 1870s.

By the end of the American Civil War, the Observatory's clocks were linked via telegraph to ring the alarm bells in all of the Washington, D. C. firehouses three times a day, and by the early 1870s the Observatory's daily noon time signal was being distributed nationwide via the Western Union Telegraph Company.

Barbed wire became common in the American West in the 1870s and in World War I first found wide use in fortifications.

Australian, Argentine, and American concerns experimented with refrigerated shipping in the mid 1870s ; the first commercial success came when William Soltau Davidson fitted a compression refrigeration unit to the New Zealand vessel Dunedin in 1882, leading to a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and South America.

The most common type of wire paper clip still in use, the Gem paper clip, was never patented, but it was most likely in production in Britain already in the early 1870s by " The Gem Manufacturing Company ", according to the American expert on technological innovations, Professor Henry J. Petroski.

The American Point System was proposed by taylor porter of Marder Luse & Company in Chicago in the 1870s, and his point system used the same method of size division as Fournier ’ s ; viz.

Because of the ongoing hostilities with the Sioux and encroachment from American settlers to the south and east, the Pawnee decided to leave their Nebraska reservation in the 1870s and settle on a new reservation in Indian Territory, located in what is today Oklahoma.

MLB is the oldest of the major American professional sports, dating back to the 1870s.

In the 1870s, mainly between 1872 and 1874, Canadian broad-gauge lines were changed to standard gauge to facilitate interchange and the exchange of rolling stock with American railroads.

Shed Road, the first all-weather turnpike in the American South, was constructed in the 1870s and operated from 1874 – 1886.

O ' Neill is named after its founder, John O ' Neill, an Irish born American who brought settlers to Nebraska during the 1870s.

His work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies, and included views of his native country ( Autumn Oaks, 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Catskill Mountains, 1870, Art Institute of Chicago ), as well as scenes inspired by numerous travels overseas, especially to Italy and France ( The Monk, 1873, Addison Gallery of American Art ; Etretat, 1875, Wadsworth Atheneum ).

Delius's familiarity with " black " music possibly predates his American adventures ; during the 1870s a popular singing group, the Fisk Jubilee Singers from Nashville, Tennessee, toured Britain and Europe, giving several well-received concerts in Bradford.

In the 1870s, under Dean Christopher Columbus Langdell, HLS introduced what has become the standard first-year curriculum for American law schools — including classes in contracts, property, torts, criminal law, and civil procedure.

In 2005 WMF helped restore an 1870s structure within the George Town Historic Enclave, with support from American Express.

When the bison herds were devastated in the 1870s, magpies switched to cattle, and by the 1960s they had also moved into the emerging towns and cities of the North American West.

One or two African American troupes dominated the scene for much of the late 1860s and 1870s.

The Gibbs free energy, originally called available energy, was developed in the 1870s by the American mathematician Josiah Willard Gibbs.

In Steel Drivin ' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, Scott Reynolds Nelson, an associate professor of history at the College of William and Mary, argues that John William Henry ( prisoner # 497 in the Virginia penitentiary, released by the warden to work on the C & O Railway in the 1870s ) is the basis for the legendary John Henry.

The milonga was a South American style of song that was popular in the 1870s.