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1870Jul, 17

Charles Davidson Dunbar

Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player (d. 1939)
Charles Davidson Dunbar, DCM (17 July 1870 – 25 January 1939) was an orphan who grew up to become the first pipe major in Britain and the British Empire to be commissioned as a pipe officer.

He emigrated from Scotland to Canada, where he came to be called "Canada's greatest military piper".

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Events on 1870

  • 15Jan

    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.