Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871

North German Confederation, Kingdom of Bavaria, Grand Duchy of Baden, Kingdom of Württemberg ⚔ Second French Empire

Key battles

• Battle of Sedan (1870)
• Siege of Paris (1870)
• Battle of Gravelotte (1870)
• Siege of Metz (1870)
• Battle of Mars-la-Tour (1870)
• Battle of Wissembourg (1870)
• Siege of Strasbourg (1870)
• Battle of Spicheren (1870)
• Battle of Wörth (1870)
• Battle of Beaumont (1870)
• Battle of Amiens (1870)
• Battle of Borny-Colombey (1870)
• Battle of Noisseville (1870)
• Battle of Bazeilles (1870)
• Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande (1870)
• Battle of Coulmiers (1870)
• Battle of St. Quentin (1871)
• Battle of Le Mans (1871)

Who lived through the Franco-Prussian War

Well-known people alive during 1870–1871:

• Karl Marx (1818–1883) — German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
• Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — Russian author (1828–1910)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882) — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Victor Hugo (1802–1885) — French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) — Dutch painter (1853–1890)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) — German philosopher (1844-1900)
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) — Russian novelist (1821–1881)
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
• Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
• Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) — Danish writer and poet (1805–1875)
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) — Russian dramatist and author (1860–1904)
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
• Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) — French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883) — German composer (1813–1883)
• Henry Ford (1863–1947) — American business magnate (1863–1947)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) — German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) — Russian composer (1840–1893)
• Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) — French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)

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