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1870s
The 1870s decade: Franco-Prussian War and German unification, completion of Italian unification, Panic of 1873 and Long Depression, founding of Standard Oil and Deutsche Bank, and the start of the Scramble for Africa.
1871
1871: hinge year in which the German Empire was proclaimed at Versailles, the Treaty of Frankfurt ended the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune was suppressed, Italy's capital moved to Rome, and the Great Chicago Fire struck.
1871 eruption of Ruang
The 1871 eruption of Ruang was a 2–14 March 1871 eruption of Ruang volcano, Indonesia, whose tsunami rose up to 25 meters and killed at least 400 people on nearby Tagulandang.
1871 Quchan earthquake
The 1871 Quchan earthquake was an earthquake of about magnitude 7.1 that struck Quchan in northeastern Iran in December 1871, devastating the town and many villages.
1872
1872, also Meiji 5, was the year President Grant signed the act creating Yellowstone National Park, the world's first, and won a second term over Horace Greeley.
1872 Antakya (Antioch) earthquake
The 1872 Antakya earthquake (Antioch) was a strike-slip earthquake of magnitude 7.2 that struck the Amik Basin in southern Türkiye on 3 April 1872, destroying the city.
1872 Baltic Sea flood
The 1872 Baltic Sea flood (Ostseesturmhochwasser 1872) was an extreme November 1872 storm surge from Denmark to Pomerania, reaching 3.5 m and killing about 300 people.
1872 Cavite mutiny
1872 Cavite mutiny: a failed January 1872 rising by native artillery troops and marines at Fort San Felipe and the Cavite naval arsenal, whose repression led to the Gomburza executions.
1872 eruption of Merapi
The 1872 eruption of Merapi was a large explosive VEI 4 eruption of the Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, that began in April 1872.
1872 Hamada earthquake
The 1872 Hamada earthquake (浜田地震) was a magnitude 7.0 to 7.2 earthquake that struck off Hamada in present-day Shimane Prefecture, Japan, on 14 March 1872, killing 551 people and destroying over 4,500 houses.
1872 Helenos
1872 Helenos (1971 FG), a roughly 34-km Jupiter Trojan asteroid at the L5 Trojan camp, discovered 24 March 1971 by van Houten, van Houten-Groeneveld, and Gehrels at Palomar; not hazardous.
1872 Peruvian coup d'état
The 1872 Peruvian coup d'état was a failed military seizure of power in Lima on 22 July 1872, when Colonel Tomás Gutiérrez deposed President José Balta to block president-elect Manuel Pardo.
1872 Quchan earthquake
The 1872 Quchan earthquake was a magnitude 7.0 aftershock that struck Quchan in northeastern Iran on 6 January 1872, completing the destruction begun by a larger shock on 23 December 1871.
1872 United States presidential election
1872 United States presidential election: incumbent Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horace Greeley, nominee of the Liberal Republicans and endorsed by Democrats; Greeley died before electors met, scattering 63 electoral votes.
1873 Agenor
1873 Agenor (1971 FH) is a dark Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 50-53 km across in the L5 Trojan camp, discovered 25 March 1971 by van Houten, van Houten-Groeneveld, and Gehrels at Palomar; it rotates in 20.60 hours and poses no Earth hazard.
1873 El Salvador earthquake
The 1873 El Salvador earthquake was a destructive sequence that struck San Salvador between February and March 1873, leaving only about fifteen houses standing in the capital.
1873 Vienna World's Fair
1873 Vienna World's Fair (Weltausstellung 1873 Wien), fifth world exposition and first in the German-speaking world, held May 1 to November 2, 1873 in the Prater; 53,000 exhibitors from 35 nations, 7.3 million visitors, 14.8-million-guilder deficit, Rotunda burned 1937.
1874 Antigua earthquake
The 1874 Antigua earthquake was a destructive earthquake that struck central Guatemala on the night of September 3, 1874, damaging Antigua Guatemala, Chimaltenango, and highland towns while leaving Guatemala City largely unharmed.
1875
1875 (Meiji 8, MDCCCLXXV) was a common year marked by the Metre Convention in Paris, the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, and the premiere of Bizet's Carmen.
1875 Cucuta earthquake
The 1875 Cúcuta earthquake was a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck the Colombia–Venezuela border on 18 May 1875, destroying San José de Cúcuta and killing about 1,000 people.
1875 Dinar earthquake
The 1875 Dinar earthquake struck the Dinar–Çivril region of Ottoman Anatolia on May 3, 1875, killing about 1,300 people and destroying most houses in Çivril and Işıklı.
1875 eruption of Mayon
The 1875 event at Mayon Volcano was a typhoon-triggered lahar, not an eruption: November 1875 rains mobilized eruption debris, killing about 1,500 people in Albay, Philippines, the volcano's deadliest recorded event.
1876
1876 was the US centennial year, featuring the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, Bell's telephone patent, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the disputed Hayes-Tilden presidential election.
1876 United States presidential election
1876 United States presidential election: Rutherford B. Hayes versus Samuel J. Tilden, resolved by an Electoral Commission awarding 20 disputed votes, giving Hayes 185 to 184 despite Tilden's popular-vote lead, ending Reconstruction.
1877
1877: year of the Compromise of 1877 ending Reconstruction and the Great Railroad Strike, the first US multi-state nationwide strike; also Victoria as Empress of India, Edison's phonograph, Mars moons, first Wimbledon.
1877 Chile earthquake
The 1877 Chile earthquake was a megathrust earthquake off northern Chile on 9 May 1877, near Iquique, generating a tsunami recorded across the Pacific, from Japan to California.
1877 eruption of Cotopaxi
The 1877 eruption of Cotopaxi was the last major eruption of the Ecuadorian volcano, unleashing catastrophic lahars down all three of its main drainages on 26 June 1877.
1877–1878 El Niño event
The 1877–1878 El Niño event was a very strong warming of the tropical Pacific that contributed to a global famine killing over 50 million people.
1878
1878, the year of the Treaty of San Stefano and Congress of Berlin, Edison's phonograph patent, the Dingwu famine in China, and the 1877-78 El Niño droughts.
1878 in the United States
In 1878 the United States saw the world's first commercial telephone exchange open in New Haven, Connecticut, and a yellow fever epidemic kill about 20,000 people.