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   Vicente Arregui Garay, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 05   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history clement Harris, composer   

Jul 10   On this day in history marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)   

Jul 10   On this day in history the birth of Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist   

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   Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on this day in history.   

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

Jul 17   Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter in the year 1871.   

Jul 18   On this day in history giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)   

Jul 20   On this day in history british Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province   

Jul 20   On this day in history 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 22   Akos Buttykai, composer in the year 1871.   

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

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

Aug 01   Oskar Fried, composer in the year 1871.   

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

Aug 06   In the year 1871 emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher   

Aug 08   William Henry Squire, composer in the year 1871.   

Aug 13   Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) in the year 1871.   

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   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   Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy) in the year 1871.   

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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 birth of Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)   

Jan 08   James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer   

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 in the year 1871.   

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 in the year 1871.   

Feb 20   In the year 1871 death of paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)   

Feb 26   On this day in history charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76   

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