Page 5: Historical Events In 1871

Jul 05   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies.   

Jul 05   Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) and Big Tree, begins   

Jul 06   Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34.   

Jul 08   Clement Harris, composer   

Jul 10   Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).   

Jul 10   Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist is born   

Jul 11   Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party).   

Jul 12   North America's inaugural public narrow gauge railway, the Toronto and Nipissing, is opened for traffic between Toronto and Uxbridge. The 3'6" gauge line was converted to standard by 1884   

Jul 16   Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.   

Jul 17   Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29   

Jul 17   Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter   

Jul 18   Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope).   

Jul 20   British Columbia is admitted to the Dominion of Canada. One of the conditions of entry is that the Dominion Government should, within two years from the date of union, commence the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains and from a point east of the Rocky Mountains towards the Pacific to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada. Sir Sandford Fleming was appointed Engineer-in-Chief of this railway which was to be completed by 1881.   

Jul 20   British Columbia is recorded as becoming 6th Canadian province   

Jul 22   Akos Buttykai, composer   

Jul 23   C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra   

Jul 25   Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa.   

Jul 25   Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa.   

Jul 29   [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk.   

Aug 01   Oskar Fried, composer.   

Aug 03   Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)   

Aug 06   Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher   

Aug 08   William Henry Squire, composer.   

Aug 13   Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party).   

Aug 16   Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer.   

Aug 18   Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)   

Aug 19   Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers)   

Aug 21   Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh).   

Aug 27   Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy).   

Aug 29   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)   

Aug 30   Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics   

Sep 03   Vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71.   

Sep 07   Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed   

Sep 07   Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns   

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Jan 05   Frederick shepherd converse: Newton mass, composer   

Jan 07   Émile borel: French mathematician and politician    

Jan 08   James craig: 1st viscount craigavon, irish politician   

Jan 09   Charles kortright: British(?) cricket player   

Jan 10   Enrica freiin von handel-manzetti: Austrian author (jesse & maria)   

Jan 12   Paul guthnick: German astronomer   

Jan 14   Pauline beersmans: [pljm van cuyck], flemish actress (hofslachter)   

Jan 15   Bertram shapleigh: Composer   

Jan 10   Pierre a du terrail: French writer,   

Jan 21   John j rochussen: Gov-general of neth-in   

Jan 29   Philippe-joseph aubert de gaspé: French canadian writer and seigneur (b. 1786)   

Feb 01   Alexander nikoleyevich serov: Composer,    

Feb 07   Heinrich engelhard steinweg: Piano manufacturer (steinway & sons) (b. 1797)   

Feb 20   Paul kane: Irish-born painter (b. 1810)   

Feb 26   Charles niellon: Belgian brigade general,    

Mar 18   Augustus de morgan: Indian-born british mathematician and logician (b. 1806)