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Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart
1870Jan, 7

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1943)
Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, (7 January 1870 – 5 May 1943) was a politician and judge in the United Kingdom.

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    Thomas Nast

    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).
  • 30Mar

    Reconstruction Era

    Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
  • 12May

    Royal Assent

    The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
  • 18Jul

    Papal infallibility

    The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
  • 19Sep

    Siege of Paris (1870-71)

    Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory.