1870s

1870s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1870 to 1879.
   • 2006, Kathryn Parker, Winchester, page 82:

     Bertha Von Hillern was an amazingly fast speed and endurance walker. In the 1870s, America went crazy, and crowds of thousands gathered to see this "pedestrienne" compete strategically.

   • 2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe‎, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, number 922, page 50:

     Funicular railways take gradients to the extreme, running two cars in counterbalanced, contrary motion over often-perilous cliff inclines. […] Britain's first funicular railways arrived in Scarborough in the 1870s.

• 1780s