Time Line 1870
- death of Saint Anthony Mary Claret
- death of Saint Clelia Barbieri
- death of the noted physician Gunning Samuel Bedford
- birth of Blessed Ladislao Batthyany-Strattmann
- birth of Blessed Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad
- birth of Saint Genoveva Torres Morales
- birth of Venerable Bernard Francis Casey
- founding of the German Center Party
- Vatican I Ecumenical Council publishes the dogmatic constitution Dei filius
| 1869 | 1871 |
