1871 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1871?
- January 18, 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
- January 28, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- 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 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 30, 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- May 4, 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- May 21, 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of “Bloody Week” some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
- May 22, 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- 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.
- September 20, 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
- September 28, 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
- 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?”.
- December 26, 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
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