Page 5: Historical Events In 1871

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

Jul 03   Vicente Arregui Garay, composer in the year 1871.   

Jul 05   On this day in history cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies   

Jul 05   Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins on this day in history.   

Jul 06   In the year 1871 antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34   

Jul 08   In the year 1871 clement Harris, composer   

Jul 10   Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past) in the year 1871.   

Jul 10   In the year 1871 the birth of Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist   

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

Jul 12   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter   

Jul 18   Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope) in the year 1871.   

Jul 20   British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province in the year 1871.   

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   In the year 1871 akos Buttykai, composer   

Jul 23   C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra in the year 1871.   

Jul 25   Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa in the year 1871.   

Jul 25   Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa on this day in history.   

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

Aug 01   On this day in history oskar Fried, composer   

Aug 03   In the year 1871 vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)   

Aug 06   On this day in history emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher   

Aug 08   In the year 1871 william Henry Squire, composer   

Aug 13   On this day in history karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

Aug 16   On this day in history zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer   

Aug 18   Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter) on this day in history.   

Aug 19   In the year 1871 orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers)   

Aug 21   In the year 1871 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) on this day in history.   

Aug 30   Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics in the year 1871.   

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   On this day in history birth of Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)   

Jan 08   James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 09   Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player was born in the year 1871.   

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

Jan 12   Paul Guthnick, German astronomer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 14   In the year 1871 birth of pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)   

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

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

Jan 21   In the year 1871 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   On this day in history alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51   

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

Feb 20   In the year 1871 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.