Culture & IdeasThe 1870s

Culture & Ideas in the 1870s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1870s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1873 to 1878. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
1873
Latest
1878

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. — Europe:

    Hungary

    The founding of Budapest

    Buda, Óbuda and Pest were unified into a single capital that grew into one of Europe's great cities; its historic core along the Danube is today a UNESCO World Heritage site.

    Era: Habsburg Rule, Revolution and the Dual Monarchy

    Sources: Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  2. — Europe:

    Estonia

    Jakobson and the national press

    Carl Robert Jakobson founded the newspaper Sakala, a leading voice of the national awakening that demanded equal rights for Estonians and an end to Baltic German privilege.

    Era: The Russian Empire and the National Awakening

    Sources: Carl Robert Jakobson and the national awakening · Estonian World, Estonia: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica