1870s

Events

1870 to 1871 : Franco-German War .
January 18, 1871: Foundation of the German Empire .
1871: First socialist revolution in France (see Paris Commune ) .
1873 : The three emperor agreement (Germany, Austria, Russia) is concluded in Berlin.
1875 : In the German Reich join in Gotha that of Ferdinand Lassalle in 1863 founded General German Workers' Association (ADAV) and that of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel in 1869 founded Social Democratic Labor Party (SDAP) for the Socialist Workers Party of Germany (SAP) together, the 1,890 in Social Democratic Party Germany's (SPD) was renamed.
1876 : Battle of Little Bighorn : The seventh US cavalry regiment under George A. Custer is defeated by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians under their leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse .

Franz Joseph I , Emperor in Austria-Hungary
Wilhelm I , German Emperor
Otto von Bismarck , German Chancellor
Victor Emmanuel II , King in Italy
Umberto , king in Italy
Pius IX , Pope
Leo XIII. , Pope
Alexander II , Tsar in Russia
Victoria , Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Benjamin Disraeli , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Ewart Gladstone , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Patrice de Mac-Mahon , President of France
Rutherford B. Hayes , President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant , President of the United States
Meiji , emperor in Japan
Cixi , Dowager Empress of China
Naser ad-Din Shah , Shah in Persia

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