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" in the year 1871.   

Jul 03   In the year 1871 vicente Arregui Garay, composer   

Jul 05   In the year 1871 cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies   

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 on this day in history.   

Jul 08   In the year 1871 clement Harris, composer   

Jul 10   In the year 1871 marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)   

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   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 in the year 1871.   

Jul 16   Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in the year 1871.   

Jul 17   Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 in the year 1871.   

Jul 17   On this day in history lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jul 22   On this day in history akos Buttykai, composer   

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

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

Jul 25   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1871 karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

Aug 16   Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer on this day in history.   

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   Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh) in the year 1871.   

Aug 27   In the year 1871 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   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   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   James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 09   Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   In the year 1871 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   On this day in history birth of pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)   

Jan 15   In the year 1871 birth of bertram Shapleigh, composer   

Jan 10   Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 in the year 1871.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 01   On this day in history alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51   

Feb 07   On this day in history death of heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)   

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 in the year 1871.   

Mar 18   Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806) died on this day in history.