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What happened in the year 1870?

Date	Event
January 3, 1870	Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
January 6, 1870	The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
January 10, 1870	John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
January 15, 1870	A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
January 23, 1870	In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
January 26, 1870	Reconstruction Era: Virginia is readmitted to the Union.
February 2, 1870	The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
February 3, 1870	The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
February 9, 1870	US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
February 15, 1870	Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, US, and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
February 23, 1870	Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
February 25, 1870	Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
February 26, 1870	The Beach Pneumatic Transit in New York City, intending as a demonstration for a subway line opens.
February 27, 1870	The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
March 1, 1870	Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
March 30, 1870	Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
April 13, 1870	The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
May 12, 1870	The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
May 14, 1870	The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
June 22, 1870	The United States Department of Justice is created by the U.S. Congress.
June 28, 1870	The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
July 1, 1870	The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
July 15, 1870	Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
July 15, 1870	Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
July 18, 1870	The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
July 19, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
August 2, 1870	Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
August 6, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.
August 6, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.
August 8, 1870	The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
August 16, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
August 18, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
August 24, 1870	The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
September 1, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
September 2, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
September 3, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
September 4, 1870	Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
September 6, 1870	Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
September 18, 1870	Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
September 19, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city held out for over four months before surrendering.
September 20, 1870	The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
October 2, 1870	By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
October 7, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
October 27, 1870	Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
November 1, 1870	In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
December 12, 1870	Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.