Page 5: Historical Events In 1871

Jul 03   The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma" on this day in history.   

Jul 03   On this day in history vicente Arregui Garay, composer   

Jul 05   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies in the year 1871.   

Jul 05   In the year 1871 trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins   

Jul 06   Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 in the year 1871.   

Jul 08   On this day in history clement Harris, composer   

Jul 10   Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past) on this day in history.   

Jul 10   The birth of Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist on this day in history.   

Jul 11   In the year 1871 stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)   

Jul 12   In the year 1871 north America's first 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   On this day in history tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln   

Jul 17   On this day in history karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29   

Jul 17   Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter on this day in history.   

Jul 18   Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope) on this day in history.   

Jul 20   British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1871.   

Jul 22   Akos Buttykai, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 23   In the year 1871 c H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra   

Jul 25   On this day in history carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa   

Jul 25   Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa in the year 1871.   

Jul 29   In the year 1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk   

Aug 01   Oskar Fried, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 03   Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928) on this day in history.   

Aug 06   Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher in the year 1871.   

Aug 08   On this day in history william Henry Squire, composer   

Aug 13   Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) on this day in history.   

Aug 16   Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer in the year 1871.   

Aug 18   On this day in history johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)   

Aug 19   On this day in history orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers)   

Aug 21   On this day in history leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)   

Aug 27   On this day in history 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) in the year 1871.   

Aug 30   In the year 1871 ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics   

Sep 03   On this day in history vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71   

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer   

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   On this day in history birth of enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)   

Jan 12   Paul Guthnick, German astronomer was born in the year 1871.   

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

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of bertram Shapleigh, composer   

Jan 10   In the year 1871 pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41   

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

Jan 29   Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786) died in the year 1871.   

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   Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810) died on this day in history.   

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

Mar 18   In the year 1871 death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)