Timeline: 1870-1879

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Songs

	The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane by William Shakespeare Hays (1871)
	Silver Threads Among the Gold by H.P. Danks (1873)
	My Ole Home in Alabama 'fo' de War by H. P. Danks (1875)
	The Boys in Blue Will See it Through; Campaign Song and Chorus by H. P. Danks (1876) (Rutherford B. Hayes campaign song)
	Dodworth's Five Step Waltz by C. Nole (1877)
	Break the News Gently to Mother by C. Nole (1878)

First black US legislators - Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi in the Senate and J. H. Rainey of South Carolina in the House of Representatives.

Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution allowing African-Americans to vote (1870)

Rutherford B. Hayes inaugerated president (1877)

Chief Joseph and 750 Nez Perce tribespeople forced to surrender in the Montana Territory by the US Army (1877)

Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana Territory - George Armstrong Custer and the U. S. Seventh Cavalry defeated by Sioux led by Sitting Bull (1876)

Yellowstone National Park established (1872)

Franco-Prussan War (1870-1871)

German Empire proclaimed at Versailles (1871)

Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India (1877)

Standard Oil Company incorporated with John D. Rockefeller as president (1870)

Sherwin-Williams Paint Company (1870)

C. A. Pillsbury & Company (1871)

B. F. Goodrich (1871)

Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company (1873)

DNA discovered (1870)

First all-metal bicycle patented (1870)

Margarine (1871)

Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (1876)

Phonograph by Thomas Edison (1877)

Lightbulb by Thomas Edison (1878)

Player Piano (1876)

"Granula" introduced by James Harvey Kellogg (1877)

P. T. Barnum's Circus opens (1871)

Fire destroys 3.5 square miles of Chicago, October 8 and 9, 1871

Jesse James robs his first passenger train (1871)

Central Park in New York is completed (1876)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)

The Washington Post begins publication (1877)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)

Baseball's National League founded (1876)