1870

Franco-Prussian War era

1870 is a year in the nineteenth century, ten years before 1880 and thirty years before the turn of the twentieth century.

Like other year-numbers, it functions as a noun in 1870, an adjective the 1870 census, or shorthand for a decade the 1870s.

References to 1870 often involve Reconstruction, the Franco-Prussian War, or Victorian-era contexts.

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Reconstruction

Post-1865 national reunification period

Napoleon III · Ulysses S. Grant · colonialism · imperialism · industrialization · Suez Canal · telegraph · steamship · Standard Oil · Impressionism

American

Reconstruction

Post-1865 national reunification period

Radical Republicans · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Ku Klux Klan · segregation · emancipation · Homestead Act · industrialization · robber barons · Gilded Age

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temporal distance

18703000

Numeral after 2999

antiquity · 2070 · ancient times · prehistoric era · prehistory

numerical roundness

18702000

Start of third millennium

1900 · 1000 · 1500 · 2100 · millennium

historical era character

18702024

Current calendar year

today · contemporary times · now · modernity

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G