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1870--Charles Fairfax Murray paints illustrations for William Morris' Book of Verse.1
Jan 23Henry Mather Greene born in Cincinnati, Ohio.2
Apr 26Irving Gill born in Tully, New York.3
1871Feb 20George Grant Elmslie born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Mar 21Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.10
Jun William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Kelmscott Manor in joint tenancy.6-276
Sep 13John Ruskin bought Brantwood, on Coniston.11-230
NovJames Abbott McNeill Whistler completed Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother.5
1872--Charles Locke Eastlake published Hints on Household Taste in America.
Jan 26Julia Morgan born in Oakland, California.
Apr Charles Fairfax Murray became principal stained glass painter for Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.1
May 15Louis Comfort Tiffany married Miss Mary Wodbridge Goddard.10
Jul 07Dante Gabriel Rossetti attempts suicide.
Aug 21Aubrey Vincent Beardsley born in Brighton, England.
1873--Hugh Mackie Gordon Garden born in Toronto, Ontario.
Apr 01Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in Novgorod Province, Russia.10
1874Nov 30British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.10
1875Jan 24Maynard Dixon born in Fresno, California.
Mar 31Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. dissolved and Morris & Co. formed.6-342
May Liberty & Co. opened in Regent Street.6-185
1876Jan 22Ernest Batchelder born in Nashau, New Hampshire.7
Mar 10The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."10
Mar 28William Eugene Drummond born in Newark, New Jersey.
May 10Philadelphia Exposition honoring the Centennial created a yearning for a simpler past. Exposition opened by President Grant.
Nov 10Philadelphia Exposition closed.
1877--John Hudson Thomas born in Ward, Nevada.8
Mar 04Rutherford Birchard Hayes inaugurated President of the United States.
Mar 22The first meeting of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings founded by William Morris is held at Queen Square.6-376
Jun 18John Ruskin's accused Whistler of " flinging a pot of paint in the public's face," in a letter that appeared in the Fors Clavigera.11-277
1878--Exposition Universelle in Paris. Frederic, Lord Leighton appointed President of the Jury on Painting.9
Nov 13Frederic, Lord Leighton elected President of the Royal Academy.9
Nov 25James Abbott McNeill Whistler won his libel suit against John Ruskin and was awarded one farthing (one quarter of a penny) in damages. Edward Burne-Jones testified on behalf of Ruskin.11-279
1879Mar 09James Abbott McNeill Whistler declared bankruptcy.5
Apr William Morris took a house on the Upper Mall in Hammersmith. He renamed it Kelmscott House.6-391
Dec 20Thomas Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey. His first public demonstration occurred on Dec 31st.10
1 Charles Fairfax Murray: The unknown Pre-Raphaelite, David Elliott, 2000
2 Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy, Randall L. Makinson, 1998
3 Irving J. Gill, Architect, Bruce Kamerling, 1993
4 Rossetti Archive
5 James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth, Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval, 1994
6 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994
7 Batchelder Tilemaker, Robert W. Winter, 1999
8 US Social Security Death Index
9 Frederic, Lord Leighton : Eminent Victorian Artist, Stephen Jones, Christopher Newall, Leonee Ormond, Richard Ormond, and Benedict Read, 1996
10 New York Times on the Web
11 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000