What happened in the 1870s in Britain?
What happened in the 1870s in Britain? 2 August – official opening of the Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London, the world's first underground passenger "tube" railway. 4 August – British Red Cross established as the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War by Lord Wantage. What was happening during the 1870s? From left to right, clockwise: Conflict erupts between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia leading to the Franco-Prussian War in 1870; a fire in Chicago kills approximately 300 people and leaves about another 100,000 people homeless in 1871;...