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