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List of events
Events from the year 1870 in the United States .
Incumbents Events January–March February 25: Hiram Rhodes Revels , the first African American Congressman. January 1 – Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
January 3 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
January 10 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil .
January 15 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly
January 26 – Reconstruction : Virginia rejoins the Union.
January 27 – The first college sorority , Kappa Alpha Theta , is established at DePauw University .
February 2 – The Cardiff Giant is proven a hoax.
February 3 – The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution , guaranteeing African-American males the right to vote, is ratified.[1]
February 9 – National Weather Service is established.
February 10
February 12 – Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. On February 14, in a Salt Lake City municipal election, Seraph Young Ford becomes the first woman in the U.S. to cast her vote.
February 23 – Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
February 25 – 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 .
February 26 – In New York City, the first pneumatic subway is opened.
March 19 – The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University .
March 24 – Syracuse University is established and officially opens.
March 30
March 31 – Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African-American to vote in an election. April–June July–September October–December October 25 – Eutaw riot : A white mob attacks a group of black citizens, killing as many as four of them, in Eutaw, Alabama .
November 1 – The newly created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service ) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".
December 12 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman (following Hiram Rhodes Revels in February). Undated Ongoing Births January 9 – Joseph Strauss , bridge engineer (died 1938 )
January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder , sculptor (died 1945 )
January 13 – Ross Granville Harrison , physiologist (died 1959 )
January 23 – William G. Morgan , inventor of volleyball (died 1942 )
February 20 – Jay Johnson Morrow , military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (died 1937 )
February 26 – John S. Cohen , U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1932 to 1933 (died 1935 )
March 5 – Frank Norris , journalist and naturalist novelist (died 1902 )
March 13
April 4
April 17 – Ray Stannard Baker , journalist and modern historian (died 1946)
May 19 – Albert Fish , serial killer (died 1936 )
May 24 – Benjamin N. Cardozo , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1938)
July 9 – Mathew Beard , supercentenarian (died 1985 )
July 25 – Maxfield Parrish , illustrator (died 1966 )
August 3 – Carrie Ingalls , younger sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder (died 1946)
August 20 – Edward Stanley Kellogg , 16th Governor of American Samoa (died 1948 )
August 25 – Mihran Kassabian , radiologist (died 1910 )
September 2 – James Bert Garner , chemical engineer and inventor (died 1960 )
September 21 – Elmer Darwin Ball , entomologist (died 1943)
September 25 – James A. Hawken , schoolteacher (died 1964 )
September 30 – Thomas W. Lamont , banker (died 1948)
October 7 – Uncle Dave Macon , banjo player and singer-songwriter (died 1952 )
November 2 – Joseph J. Sullivan , gambler (died 1949 )
December 12 – Walter Benona Sharp , oil pioneer (died 1912 )
December 23 – John Marin , modernist painter (died 1953 )
Robert Ames Bennet , Western and science fiction writer (died 1954 )Hulburd Steel , New York City marine artistDeaths January 17 – Alexander Anderson , illustrator (born 1775 )
January 25 – David Bates , poet (born 1809 )
March 26 – Pierre Soulé , U.S. Senator from Louisiana in 1847 and from 1849 to 1853 (born 1801 )
March 28 – George Henry Thomas , general (born 1816 )
April 15 – Emma Willard , women's rights activist and educationalist (born 1787 )
April 26 – Zerah Colburn , locomotive designer and technical journalist (suicide) (born 1832 )
May 9 – Lawrence Brainerd , U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1854 to 1855 (born 1794 )
June 11 – William Gilmore Simms , Southern poet, novelist and historian (born 1806 )
June 17 – Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte , agriculturalist, nephew of Napoleon I (born 1805 in the United Kingdom )
July 13 – Daniel Sheldon Norton , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1865 to 1870 (born 1829 )
June 27 – Cyrus Kingsbury, Congregationalist missionary to Cherokee and Choctaw tribes (died in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory )
August 14 – David Farragut , flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War (born 1801 )
September 12 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow , author and explorer (born 1836 )
October 3 – Joseph Mozier , sculptor best known for his work in Italy (born 1812 )
October 12
December 5 – David Gouverneur Burnet , politician (born 1788 )
December 16 – Byron Kilbourn , surveyor, railroad executive and politician (born 1801)
December 28 – Wilson Lumpkin , U.S. Senator from Georgia and Governor of Georgia from 1831 to 1835 (born 1783 ) See also References External links
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