Page 5: Historical Events In 1871

Jul 03   In the year 1871 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   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies in the year 1871.   

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

Jul 06   Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 on this day in history.   

Jul 08   On this day in history 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   Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party) in the year 1871.   

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   In the year 1871 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) in the year 1871.   

Jul 20   In the year 1871 british Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province   

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 in the year 1871.   

Jul 23   C H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra on this day in history.   

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

Jul 25   In the year 1871 carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa   

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

Aug 01   In the year 1871 oskar Fried, composer   

Aug 03   Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928) in the year 1871.   

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

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

Aug 13   In the year 1871 karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

Aug 16   In the year 1871 zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer   

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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1871.   

Sep 03   Vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1871.   

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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   James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) was born on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 15   In the year 1871 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   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   On this day in history death of heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)   

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