Years 1870

Events

Boom of exports of rubber in Angola, which take the step on those of ivory and wax. Towards 1885, rubber represents the three quarters of Angolan exports.
Decline of the Trans-Saharan trade between the loop of the Niger and the Morocco to leave the years 1870.
146 European foreign posts are installed between Loango and Luanda, on both sides of the mouth of the Congo. The principal warehouse of this trade is to 400 km of the coasts, with the Pool Malebo. After the stop of the draft négrière towards 1860, the basin of Congo exports especially Ivoire, rubber, Gomme copale, Palm oil and Noix of cabbage tree. It imports European products and especially sea salt which acts practically as currency inside. The Cauris, the fabrics and copper in the form of bars ( mitako ) are also used for the exchanges.

the the United States count 85 000 km of railroads.
75 million Bison S is killed in the decade
2 800 000 immigrants between 1870 and 1879.
Effort of the radical governors of the South to provide education for the black population. From 1870 with 1876, the number of schoolboys passes from 30 000 with 123 000 in South Carolina.

In Bolivia, a third of the public grounds passes in hands deprived after 1870.
Of 1811 to 1870, Cuba imported 606 000 African slaves, is 32% of the slaves unloaded in Americas.
the Argentine becomes exporting cereals.
Appearance of the first banana plantations in the years 1870 in Central America. The installation of large American companies, like the United Fruit Company (1899), transforms the economic life and policy of the small countries of the area.
Prosperity of the town of Guayaquil in Ecuador thanks to the Cocoa. Exports passed from 5000 tons in 1840 to 12 000 in 1870 and represent the three quarters of the receipts of the country.

Crisis in the sector of the coffee in the valley of the Paraiba (1870-1890): exhaustion of the grounds, shortage of slaves, international competition.
the annual production of coffee will pass from 200 000 tons in 1870 with 300 000 in 1880 and 700 000 in 1900.
Of 1811 to 1870, Brazil imported 1,145 million African slaves, that is to say 60% of the slaves unloaded in America (3% in the United States, 32% in Cuba).

Development of an important textile industry around Bombay, intended for the interior market and export towards the China. It will occupy the fifth world rank in 1914 and will produce 23% of the cotton fabrics consumed in India (44% if one takes into account the artisanal production).

agricultural Crisis with the Netherlands (1870 - 1880). Industrial rise. The Netherlands count 3,6 million inhabitants. The development of the rail network, the crisis of the farm prices and the demographic expansion (26% between 1875 and 1885) involve a massive rural migration which creates an urban proletariat.
underwater telegraphic Câble enters the Portugal and the England.
winter Warming in Iceland of 1,5°C of 1870 with 1940.
70% of the Danish population saw agriculture and 15% of industry.

Since 1800, the production of textile is multiplied by 14 and that of coal by 10 (it will still double until in 1910).
annual exports are of 218 million £ between 1870 and 1879. The United Kingdom provides one the third of the worldwide production of manufactured goods and the national revenue per capita is highest in the world. It produces 60% of world coal, 50% of cotton fabrics, 40% of steel. A quarter of the national revenue is ensured by exports.
industry employs 5,5 million people, the trade and transport 2,3 million, agriculture and the domestic services 1,8 million, the public office and the liberal professions 700 000.

London would count 80 000 male prostitutes (10 000 according to the police force).

220 000 inhabitants with Rome. The city become capital in 1872 is the theater of a real immense operation. Many monuments are destroyed to build residences for the administration.
1 175 000 Italians emigrate between 1870 and 1880. They move towards the European nations, especially towards the France. After 1880, they start to cross the Atlantique: Argentinian, Brazil and the United States.

Simple: 1870s

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