1870s POLITICS & CULTURE.
| US President Grant's 2nd term: 1872 | President Hayes: 1877 |
| Ex-Confederates pardoned: 1872 | Colorado new U.S. state: 1876 |
| Jehovah's Witnesses: 1871 | Reform School: 1876 |
| American zoo: 1874 | J.D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co: 1870 |
| Arkansas civil war ends in-state military rule: 1873 |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: 1874 |
| Stanley meets Livingston in African wilderness: 1871 |
| Vatican proclaims papal infallibility: 1870 |
| P. T. Barnum's circus: "Greatest Show on Earth": 1871 |
1870s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.
| Telephone: 1876 | Electric street lighting (London): 1878 |
| Microphone: 1878 | Phonograph: 1877 |
| Color photographs: 1873 | Automatic railroad air brake: 1872 |
| Bacteria identification: 1877 | Electric tram: 1879 |
| Motorized tricycle: 1878 | US bike manufacture |
| Fur farming: 1878 | John Hopkins University: 1876 |
| Modern luxury liners: 1871 |
| Steam-carriage - experimental (picture, top left of page) not allowed on street, yet, because of noise. |
1870s SPORTS.
| Roller-skating rink (England): 1875 | International soccer game: 1872 |
| Ski club: 1872 | Swim across English Channel: 1875 |
| Uniform rules, American football clubs: 1873 | U. S. National Baseball League: 1876 |
| Bicycles manufactured in US: 1878 | Modern lawn tennis: 1873 |
| Bicycle Touring Club: 1878 | U.S. tennis: 1874 |
1870s MUSIC COMPOSITIONS
- Bizet
- 1875, Carmen
- Brahms
- 1874, Hungarian Dances
- 1876, Symphony No. 1, Op. 68
- 1877, Symphony No. 2, Op. 75
- Bruckner
- 1873, Symphony No. 2
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- 1875, Trial by Jury, operetta
- 1878, H.M.S. Pinafore
- Ponchielli
- 1876, La Gioconda, opera
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- 1873, Ivan the Terrible, opera
- Johann Strauss II
- 1874, Die Fledermaus, operetta
- Tchaikovsky
- 1870, Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture
- 1873, Symphony No. 2
- 1875, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op.23
- 1877, Francesca da Rimini
- 1879, Eugen Onegin, opera
- Verdi
- 1871, Aida
- 1874, Requiem
- Wagner
- 1870, Die Walkure
- 1876, Siegfried, opera
1870s ART & THEATER.
| 1874, First Impressionist exhibition in Paris | 1878, William Morris: "Decorative Arts"
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Artists
Whistler, Rossetti, Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Homer, Rodin, Morris
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