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| Gregorian calendar | 1870 MDCCCLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2623 |
| Armenian calendar | 1319 ԹՎ ՌՅԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6620 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 26–27 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1791–1792 |
| Bengali calendar | 1277 |
| Berber calendar | 2820 |
| British Regnal year | 33 Vict. 1 – 34 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2414 |
| Burmese calendar | 1232 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7378–7379 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4566 or 4506 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4567 or 4507 |
| Coptic calendar | 1586–1587 |
| Discordian calendar | 3036 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1862–1863 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5630–5631 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1926–1927 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1791–1792 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4970–4971 |
| Holocene calendar | 11870 |
| Igbo calendar | 870–871 |
| Iranian calendar | 1248–1249 |
| Islamic calendar | 1286–1287 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 3 (明治３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1798–1799 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4203 |
| Minguo calendar | 42 before ROC 民前42年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 402 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2412–2413 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Earth-Snake) 1996 or 1615 or 843 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 1997 or 1616 or 844 |
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1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
Births
- January 8 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
- January 15 – Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
- February 7 – Alfred Adler, psychologist
- March 5 – Frank Norris, writer (d. 1902)
- March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (d. 1951)
- March 20 – Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
- April 22 – Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
- April 30 – Franz Lehár, composer (d. 1948)
- May 19 – Albert Fish, serial killer (d. 1936; executed by electrocution)
- June 13 Sophia of Prussia Queen of Greece Grand Daughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Kaiser William II of Germany and mother of future 3 kings George II Alexander I Paul I ( died 1932
- July 3 – Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada.
- July 12 – Louis II of Monaco
- July 29 – George Dixon, Black Canadian boxer, first Black world boxing champion in any weight class.
- August 31 – Maria Montessori, educator
- September 26 – King Christian X of Denmark
- November 21 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official
- December 5 – Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949)
Deaths
- February 11 – Jacob M. de Kempenaer, Dutch Minister of Internal Affairs (1848-1849?).
- February 11 – Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
- February 19 – Nathaniel de Rothschild, French wine grower
- March 28 – George Henry Thomas, American general
- June 9 – Charles Dickens, British novelist
- July 20 – Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Prix Goncourt
- October 12 – Robert E. Lee, Confederate General.
- November 4 – Comte de Lautreamont, French poet and writer.
- December 5 – Alexandre Dumas, père, writer
- December 27 – General Prim, Spanish dictator.
- Henry Rowe – Gothic architect