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1871
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'''Years:''' 1868 1869 1870 - 1871 -
1872 1873 1874
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'''Decades:''' 1840s 1850s 1860s - '''
1870s''' -
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'''Centuries:''' 18th century - '''
19th century''' -
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'''1871 (MDCCCLXXI)''' was a
common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January - April
*
January 2 -
Amadeus I becomes King of
Spain.
*
January 10 -
France surrenders to end the
Franco-Prussian War
*
January 18 - The member-states of the
North German Confederation unite into a single
nation-state known as the
German Empire. The
List of Kings of Prussia King of Prussia is declared the first
List of German Kings and Emperors German Emperor as
Wilhelm I of Germany.
*
January 21 -
Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops win in
Dijon
*
March 21 - Marriage of
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Princess Louise to
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving
Secretary of State for India.
*
March 22 - In
North Carolina,
William Woods Holden William Holden becomes the first governor of a
U.S. state to be removed from office by
impeachment.
*
March 26 - The
Paris Commune is formally established in
Paris.
*
March 29 - The
Royal Albert Hall is opened by
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria.
*April -
Handelsbanken Stockholms Handelsbank is founded.
*
April 20 - United States President Ulysses S. Grant signs the
Ku Klux Klan Act.
May - August
*
May 4- First
MLB baseball game is played.
*
May 11 - First trial of the case of
Tichborne Claimant begins in the
London Court of Common Pleas.
*
May 21-
May 30 30 -
French Third Republic.government troops invade
Paris Commune and crush the rebellion.
*
June 10 - Capt McLane Tilton leads 109
Marines in naval attack on
Han River forts in
Korea.
*
June 18 --
University Tests Act removes religious tests at
Oxford University Oxford,
University of Cambridge Cambridge and
Durham University Durham.
*
July 20 -
British Columbia joins the confederation of
Canada.
*
July 20 -
C. W. Alcock proposes that 'a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with
Football Association the Association', giving birth to the
FA Cup.
*
August 31 -
Adolphe Thiers becomes President of the French Republic.
September - December
*
October 8 - Four major fires break out on the shores of
Lake Michigan in
Chicago, Illinois,
Peshtigo, Wisconsin,
Holland, Michigan, and
Manistee, Michigan. The
Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, having left nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the
Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in
United States history.
*
October 20 - The
Royal Regiment of Artillery formed the first regular
Canada Canadian army units when they created two
batteries of
artillery garrison artillery which eventually became
Royal Canadian Artillery The Royal Canadian Artillery.
*
October 27 - The
Comte de Chambord refuses to be crowned 'King Henry V of France' until France abandons its tricolour and returns to the old bourbon flag.
*
October 27 -
New York mayor
Boss Tweed arrested
*
October 27 - British occupy the
Klipdrift in
South Africa, ending the
Klipdrift Republic
*
November 6 -
Ulysses Grant is re-elected
President of the United States.
*
November 10 -
Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr.
David Livingstone in
Ujiji, near
Lake Tanganyika, and greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
*
November 17 - The
National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of
New York.
*
December 10 - The
Germany German chancellor Otto von Bismarck tries to ban
Catholicism Catholics from the political stage by introducing harsh laws concerning the separation of
church and
state.
Unknown date
*
Trade Union Act - British
trade unions legalized.
*
Heinrich Schliemann begins the excavation of
Troy.
*
Japan forms its own
police force based on French model.
*
George Biddell Airy discovers
astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.
*
Abolition of the han system in
Japan.
*
William Marcy Tweed serves his last year as the "
Boss" of
Tammany Hall.
*
Neath RFC founded
*
Cary, North Carolina named in honor of
Samuel Fenton Cary
Births
*
January 7 - Félix Édouard Justin
Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d.
1956)
*
January 30 -
Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born actor (d.
1940)
*
February 4 -
Friedrich Ebert,
President of Germany (d.
1925)
*
February 18 -
Harry Brearley, English inventor (d.
1948)
*
March 1 -
Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (d.
1938)
*
March 5 -
Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (d.
1919)
*
March 19 -
Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (d.
1921)
*
March 27 -
Heinrich Mann, German writer (d.
1950)
*
March 31 -
Arthur Griffith,
President of Ireland (d.
1922)
*
May 3 -
Walter Parr Walter Robinson Parr, English-born pastor (d.
1922)
*
May 6 -
Victor Grignard, French chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d.
1935)
*May 6 -
Christian Morgenstern, German author (d.
1914)
*
May 27 -
Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d.
1958)
*
June 14 -
Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d.
1946)
*
July 10 -
Marcel Proust, French writer (d.
1922)
*
July 17 -
Lyonel Feininger, German painter (d.
1956)
*
July 25 -
Richard Ernest Turner, Canadian soldier (d.
1961)
*
August 14 -
Guangxu Emperor of China (d.
1908)
*
August 19 -
Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d.
1948)
*
August 25 -
Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher (d.
1912)
*
August 27 -
Theodore Dreiser, American writer (d.
1945)
*
August 29 -
Albert Lebrun, French politician (d.
1950)
*
August 30 -
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
1937)
*
September 24 -
Lottie Dod, English athlete (d.
1960)
*
September 26 -
Winsor McCay, American cartoonist and animator (d.
1934)
*
September 27 -
Grazia Deledda, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1936)
*
October 2 -
Cordell Hull,
United States Secretary of State, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1955)
*
October 19 -
Walter Bradford Cannon, Physiologist (d.
1945)
*
October 30 -
Paul Valéry, French poet (d.
1945)
*
November 1 -
Stephen Crane, American writer (d.
1900)
*
December 9 -
Joe Kelley,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
1943)
*
December 13 -
Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d.
1945)
Deaths
*
January 15 -
Edward C. Delevan, American
temperance movement leader (b.
1793)
*
January 19 -
William Denison Sir William Denison, Governor of New South Wales (b.
1804)
*
February 11 -
Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine, Luxembourg politician
*
February 20 -
Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b.
1810)
*
May 11 -
John Herschel, English astronomer (b.
1792)
*
September 20 -
John Coleridge Patteson, Anglican bishop and missionary (martyred) (b.
1827)
*
September 23 -
Louis-Joseph Papineau, Canadian politician (b.
1786)
*
October 18 -
Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b.
1791)
*
December 28 -
John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician (b.
1809)
*
March 18 -
Augustus De Morgan, Professor of mathematics and mathematician (b.
1806)
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