Historical Events In 1871

Sep 07   Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed on this day in history.   

Sep 07   Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns in the year 1871.   

Sep 08   Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1871.   

Sep 12   On this day in history friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania   

Sep 12   Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.   

Sep 13   Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other) in the year 1871.   

Sep 17   Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens in the year 1871.   

Sep 19   On this day in history fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)   

Sep 20   On this day in history bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia.   

Sep 21   Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier on this day in history.   

Sep 23   Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45 in the year 1871.   

Sep 23   On this day in history frantisek Kupka, Czech writer   

Sep 25   Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies in the year 1871.   

Sep 26   Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Sep 28   Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) on this day in history.   

Sep 30   On this day in history john Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)   

Oct 01   In the year 1871 general Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht   

Oct 02   Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy in the year 1871.   

Oct 02   Cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945) on this day in history.   

Oct 03   Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard) in the year 1871.   

Oct 06   In the year 1871 fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour   

Oct 07   On this day in history 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters   

Oct 08   A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago' on this day in history.   

Oct 08   Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin in the year 1871.   

Oct 08   Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history.   

Oct 09   On this day in history gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)   

Oct 09   In the year 1871 the Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.   

Oct 11   Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed in the year 1871.   

Oct 12   On this day in history pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan   

Oct 13   The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York in the year 1871.   

Oct 14   In the year 1871 alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)   

Oct 17   Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa on this day in history.   

Oct 17   President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus in the year 1871.   

Oct 18   Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto) in the year 1871.   

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Jan 05   In the year 1871 birth of frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer   

Jan 07   In the year 1871 birth of Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)   

Jan 08   In the year 1871 birth of james Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)   

Jan 09   Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 12   In the year 1871 birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer   

Jan 14   Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 15   Bertram Shapleigh, composer was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 10   Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

Jan 21   On this day in history john J Rochussen, gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73   

Jan 29   On this day in history death of philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)   

Feb 01   On this day in history alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51   

Feb 07   In the year 1871 death of heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)   

Feb 20   On this day in history death of paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)   

Feb 26   Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 in the year 1871.   

Mar 18   Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806) died in the year 1871.