What Ever Happened In The 1870's?

Wars and Treaties

Impressionism

Inventions

Other Important Facts

1870

• France Declares War On Prussia

1871

• William I Of Prussia Claimed Emperor
• The Franco-German Peace At Frankfurt

1872

• Entente Between Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary

1875

• Rebellion In Cuba

1876

• Turkish Troops Masacre Bulgarians
• Berlin Memorandum
• Serbia And Montenegro Declare War On Turkey
• Russia Prepares For War Against Turkey

1877

• Russia Declares War
• British Note To Russia Warning Her Against Attempted Blockage Of Suez
• British Cabinet Declares War On Russia If She Occupies War On Constantinople

1878

• Turks Appeal To Russia For An Armistice
• Britain Sends Fleet To Constantinople
• Preliminary Treaty Between Russia And Turkey
• British Calls Out Reserves To Malta
• Secret Treaties Between Britain And Russia & Britain And Turkey

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French IMPRESSIONISM, a major movement, first in painting and later in music, developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together independently. Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a time in the early 1870s. The established painter Édouard Manet, whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced Monet and others of the group, himself adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873.

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1870

• J.D. Rockefellar And Associates Founded Standard Oil Company

1872

• Thomas Edison Invents Galvanic Storage Batteries

1873

• Christopher Sholes Invents The Practical Typewriter
• William Kingdon Clifford Wrote The Preliminary Sketch of Bi-quaternion

1876

• Robert Koch Discovers The Anthrax-Causing Micro-Organism
• Elisha Gray Invents The Musical Telegraph

1877

• Edweard Muybridge Demonstrates High-Speed Photography
• Alexander Graham Bell Invents First Practical Telephone
• Wax Cylinder Phonograph Invented By Thomas A. Edison
• Charles Teller Invented The Refrigerator Ship
• Giovanni Schialarelli Finds The Canals of Mars
• Joseph Monier Patents Reinforced Concrete

1878

• David Hughes Invented The Carbon Microphone

1879

• Edison Invents The Incandescent Light Bulb
• William Edward Ayrton Was The First To Advocate Power Transmission At High Voltage 1879
• Constantine Fuhlberg And Ira Remsen Discover Saccharin

1870

Forster's Elementary Education Act Establishes School Boards

Vatican Council (Establishes The Infallibility Of The Pope)

Charles Dickens Dies At Age 58

1871

University Tests Act Removes Religious Tests At Oxford And Cambridge

Trade Unions Legalized

Newcastle Engineers Strike For A Nine-Hour Day

Charles Darwin Writes The Descent Of Man

1873

Financial Crisis Begins In Vienna (Spreading To Other European Capitals Leading ToWithdrawl Of Foreign Investments From The USA

1874

Robert Frost Was Born

The Socialist Working Mens Party Was Formed

1875

Brittain Buys Into The Suez Canal

Mark Twain Writes The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer

Hans Christian Anderson Dies At Age 70

1876

Britain And France Establish Dual Control Over The Suez Canal

Compulsory School Attendance In Great Britain

1877

Queen Victoria named Empress of India

Famine In India

1878

Anti-Socialist Law In Germany Prohibits Public Meetings, Publications, And Collections, Thus Forcing Socialism UnderGround

Columbia Grants A French Company A Nine Year Concession To Build The Panama Canal

1879

Somerville And Lady Margaret Colleges (For Women) Founded At Oxford

Joseph Stalin Was Born

 

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