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 |
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Steam-carriage (picture, top left of page) not allowed on street, because of noise.
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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 HOUSE PLAN BOOKS.
1870s COOKBOOKS.
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
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Artists
Whistler, Rossetti, Cezanne, Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Homer, Rodin, Morris
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1870s LITERATURE.
- Samuel Butler
- 1872: Erewhon
- Lewis Carroll
- 1871: Through the Looking Glass
- George Eliot
- 1871: Middlemarch
- Thomas Hardy
- 1872: Under the Greenwood Tree
- 1874: Far from the Maddening Crowd
- 1878: The Return of the Native
- Victor Hugo
- 1874: Ninety-Three
- Henrik Ibsen
- 1877: The Pillars of Society
- 1879: A Doll's House
- Henry James
- 1876: Roderick Hudson
- 1877: The American
- 1879: Daisy Miller
- George Meredith
- 1879: The Egoist
- Robert Lewis Stevenson
- 1879: Travels with a Donkey
- August Strindberg
- 1879: The Red Room
- Leo Tolstoi
- 1873: Anna Karenina
- Ivan Turgenev
- 1872: A Month in the Country
- 1876: The Dream
- Mark Twain
- 1875: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Jules Verne
- 1870: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- 1872: Around the World in 80 Days
1870s NON-FICTION BOOKS.
1870, T. H. Huxley, Theory of Biogenesis
1871, Charles Darwin,
The Descent of Man
1870, Dictionary of American Biography
1871, Adolph Wagner, The Social Question
1872, D. F. Strauss, The Old Faith and the New
1872, Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
1873, Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology
1873, James Clerk Maxwell, Electricity and Magnetism
1873, Wilhelm Wundt, Physiological Psychology
1874, Henry Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics
1872, Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health
1875, Heinrich Schliemann, Troy and Its Remains
1876, F. H. Bradley, Ethical Studies
1876, Lombroso, The Criminal
1877, J. C. F. Zollner, Treatise of Spiritualism
1877, Lord Rayleigh, Treatise on Sound
1878, W. E. H. Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century
1878, Charles Pierce, How to Make Our Ideas Clear
1878, George Romanes, A Candid Examination of Theism
1877, Lord Rayleigh, Treatise on Sound
1879, A. J. Balfour, Defence of Philosophic Doubt
1879, Henry George, Progress and Poverty
1879, Robert Giffen, Essay on Finance
1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Ethics
1879, Treitschke, History of Germany in the XIXth Century
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