1871

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

January

\n* January 10 – Henry Morton Stanley finds David Livingstone\n* January 18 - The member-states of the North German Confederation unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany.\n*January 28 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War

February

March

\n* March 1 - Ben Harney, US composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)\n* March 22 - In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. \n* March 21 - Marriage of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom to John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India\n* March 26 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. \n* March 29 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

April

May

\n* May 11 - First trial of the case of Tichborne Claimant begins in the London Court of Common Pleas.\n* May 20 - Paris Commune crushed by government forces\n*May 30 - The Paris Commune is suppressed by the armed forces of the French Third Republic.

June

July

\n* July 20 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.

August

\n* August 31 - Adolphe Thiers becomes President of the French Republic

September

October

\n* October 8 - Great Chicago Fire: A large fire in Chicago, Illinois preempts news reporting of the Peshtigo, Wisconsin fire, burns 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km²) in one day, eventually destroys about 17,450 buildings, kills about 250 people and leaves another 90,000 homeless. It is brought under control the next day. \n* October 8 - The Peshtigo, Wisconsin fire, which burned 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km²) in one day\n* October 20 - The Royal Regiment of Artillery formed the first regular Canadian army units when they created two batteries of garrison artillery which eventually became The Royal Canadian Artillery.\n* 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.

November

\n* 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?"\n* November 17 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

December

Undated

\n* University Tests Act removes religious tests at Oxford and Cambridge\n* Trade Union Act - British trade unions legalized\n* Heinrich Schliemann begins the excavation of Troy\n* Japan forms its own police force based on French model\n* George Biddell Airy discovers astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.\n* Abolition of the Han system in Japan\n*William Marcy Tweed serves his last year as the "Boss" of Tammany Hall.

Births

\n* January 17 - David Earl Betty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, British admiral (d. 1936)\n* January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (d. 1940)\n* February 4 - Friedrich Ebert, president of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)\n* March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (d. 1919)\n* March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950)\n* May 6 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914)\n* May 27 - Georges Rouault, painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)\n* August 19 - Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane\n* August 29 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)\n* September 27 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer - Nobel prize (d. 1936)\n* December 9 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)\n* December 12 - Umenosuke Bessho, Japanese writer (d. 1945)\n* December 13 - Emily Carr, Canadian writer\n* Richard Turner, Canadian lieutenant of the of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, awarded with the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Second Boer War.\n* Guangxu, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.

Deaths

\n* February 20 - Paul Kane, painter\n*September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, aged 85, Canadian politician and former leader of the Patriotes Rebellion.\n*October 18 - Charles Babbage, aged 79, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n