1870 in Liberia

The following lists events that happened during 1870 in Liberia.

Incumbents

 * President: James Spriggs Payne (until January 3), Edward James Roye (starting January 3)
 * Vice President: Joseph Gibson (until January 3), James Skivring Smith (starting January 3)
 * Chief Justice: C. L. Parsons

May

 * May 3 – Liberian constitutional referendum, 1870

Births

 * January 30 – Theophilus Momolu Gardiner, Liberian religious leader, in Dearlah, Grand Cape Mount County, (d. 1941)
 * October 29 – Samuel Alfred Ross, Vice President of Liberia (1920–1924), in Greenville (d. 1929)