1870, year



1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1870 th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 870th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1870, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.

SS City of Boston vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard.[1]

[1] while the official rumors suggested to be caused by the Dynamite Fiend, the ship collided with a Freon spaceship (on its way to the Gray Base on the bottom of the Atlantic. The survivors of the collision were abducted by the Freons. (see the Gray Base incident )