1871 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1871?
- January 19, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
- January 28, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- February 17, 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
- March 18, 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
- March 21, 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
- March 22, 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- March 27, 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- March 29, 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- April 1, 1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.
- April 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- May 4, 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- May 21, 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
- May 22, 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- June 10, 1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- June 16, 1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
- July 20, 1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- August 29, 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- October 8, 1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
- November 10, 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
- November 17, 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
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