Historical Events In 1871

Sep 07   Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed in the year 1871.  

Sep 07   Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns on this day in history.  

Sep 08   On this day in history etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57  

Sep 12   Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania on this day in history.  

Sep 12   In the year 1871 karl Collan, composer, dies at 43  

Sep 13   Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other) on this day in history.  

Sep 17   In the year 1871 mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens  

Sep 19   In the year 1871 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   In the year 1871 ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier  

Sep 23   In the year 1871 alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45  

Sep 23   In the year 1871 frantisek Kupka, Czech writer  

Sep 25   In the year 1871 arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies  

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

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

Sep 30   In the year 1871 john Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)  

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

Oct 02   On this day in history brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy  

Oct 02   In the year 1871 cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)  

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   16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters on this day in history.  

Oct 08   In the year 1871 a cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'  

Oct 08   On this day in history gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin  

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

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

Oct 09   On this day in history the Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.  

Oct 11   In the year 1871 great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed  

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

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

Oct 14   Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman) on this day in history.  

Oct 17   Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa in the year 1871.  

Oct 17   President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus on this day in history.  

Oct 18   On this day in history louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)  

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Jan 05   Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 07   Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) was born in the year 1871.  

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

Jan 09   In the year 1871 birth of charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player  

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

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer  

Jan 14   Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter) was born in the year 1871.  

Jan 15   In the year 1871 birth of bertram Shapleigh, composer  

Jan 10   On this day in history pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41  

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

Jan 29   In the year 1871 death of philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)  

Feb 01   Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

Feb 07   Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797) died on this day in history.  

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

Feb 26   In the year 1871 charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76  

Mar 18   On this day in history death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)