Historical Events In 1871

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

Sep 07   On this day in history cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns  

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

Sep 12   Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania in the year 1871.  

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

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

Sep 17   On this day in history mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens  

Sep 19   Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis) on this day in history.  

Sep 20   In the year 1871 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 in the year 1871.  

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

Sep 23   Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer in the year 1871.  

Sep 25   Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies on this day in history.  

Sep 26   Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1871.  

Sep 28   In the year 1871 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   On this day in history general Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht  

Oct 02   In the year 1871 brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy  

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

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

Oct 06   Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour on this day in history.  

Oct 07   16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters in the year 1871.  

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

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   Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-) on this day in history.  

Oct 09   On this day in history 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   Pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan in the year 1871.  

Oct 13   On this day in history 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) in the year 1871.  

Oct 17   On this day in history great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa  

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

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

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Jan 05   Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer was born in the year 1871.  

Jan 07   Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player  

Jan 10   Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria) was born in the year 1871.  

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 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   John J Rochussen, gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73 in the year 1871.  

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 in the year 1871.  

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   Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

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