Standard Oil founded
1870 · Event
Rockefeller's vehicle for vertical integration of oil refining; broken up in 1911.
On these timelines: Master, Industrial Revolution
Around 1870
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)