1871

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Year 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1871
2 Births
- 2.1 January - June
- 2.2 July - December
3 Deaths
- 3.1 January - June
- 3.2 July - December

[edit] Events of 1871

[edit] January - March

January 2 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
January 18 - The member-states of the North German Federation and the south German states 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.
January 21 - Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops win in Dijon
March 21 - Marriage of Princess Louise to John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India.
March 22 - In North Carolina, 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 27 - First Rugby Union International: Scotland 4-1 England.
March 29 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

[edit] April - June

April - Stockholms Handelsbank is founded.
April 20 - United States President US Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act.
May 4- First MLB baseball game is played.
May 10 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War
May 11 - First trial of the case of Tichborne Claimant begins in the London Court of Common Pleas.
May 21-30 - 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, Cambridge and Durham universities.

[edit] July - September

July 20
- British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- C. W. Alcock proposes that "a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association", giving birth to the FA Cup.
August 29 - Abolition of the han system in Japan.
August 31 - Adolphe Thiers becomes President of the French Republic.
September - 1,219 people abandon thirty-three whaling ships caught in the ice off the north coast of Alaska in the Whaling Disaster of 1871.

[edit] October - December

October 8 - Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire kills 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 Canadian army units when they created two batteries of garrison artillery which eventually became 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.
- New York mayor Boss Tweed arrested
November 5 - Six men travelling by stagecoach are murdered by Yavapai in the Wickenburg massacre
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 German chancellor Otto von Bismarck tries to ban Catholics from the political stage by introducing harsh laws concerning the separation of church and state.
December 19 - The city of Birmingham, Alabama (USA) was incorporated.
December 25 - Reading Football Club formed
December 26 - Thespis, the first of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, premières. It does modestly well, but the two will not collaborate again for four years.

[edit] Undated

The provinces of Alsace and Lorraine are transferred from France to Germany.
British trade unions are 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.
William M. Tweed serves his last year as the "Boss" of Tammany Hall.
Neath RFC founded
Cary, North Carolina named in honor of Samuel Fenton Cary
Harvard Summer School founded

[edit] Births

**1871 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1871 MDCCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2624
Armenian calendar	1320 ԹՎ ՌՅԻ
Bahá'í calendar	27 – 28
Berber calendar	2821
Buddhist calendar	2415
Burmese calendar	1233
Chinese calendar	4507/4567-11-11 (庚午年十一月十一日) — to — 4508/4568-11-20 (辛未年十一月二十日)
Coptic calendar	1587 – 1588
Ethiopian calendar	1863 – 1864
Hebrew calendar	5631 – 5632
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1926 – 1927
- Shaka Samvat	1793 – 1794
- Kali Yuga	4972 – 4973
Holocene calendar	11871
Iranian calendar	1249 – 1250
Islamic calendar	1287 – 1288
Japanese calendar	Meiji 4 (明治4年)
Korean calendar	4204
Thai solar calendar	2414
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