Historical Events In 1871

Sep 07   Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed in the year 1871.  

Sep 07   Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns in the year 1871.  

Sep 08   In the year 1871 etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57  

Sep 12   Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania on this day in history.  

Sep 12   Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

Sep 13   In the year 1871 alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)  

Sep 17   In the year 1871 mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens  

Sep 19   On this day in history fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)  

Sep 20   Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands. He was the first bishop of Melanesia in the year 1871.  

Sep 21   Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier on this day in history.  

Sep 23   Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

Sep 23   On this day in history frantisek Kupka, Czech writer  

Sep 25   Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies in the year 1871.  

Sep 26   On this day in history philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78  

Sep 28   Pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44) on this day in history.  

Sep 30   On this day in history john Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)  

Oct 01   General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht in the year 1871.  

Oct 02   On this day in history brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy  

Oct 02   In the year 1871 cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)  

Oct 03   Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard) in the year 1871.  

Oct 06   Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour in the year 1871.  

Oct 07   16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters in the year 1871.  

Oct 08   On this day in history a cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'  

Oct 08   Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin on this day in history.  

Oct 08   In the year 1871 great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation  

Oct 09   On this day in history gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)  

Oct 09   On this day in history the Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.  

Oct 11   On this day in history great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed  

Oct 12   In the year 1871 pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan  

Oct 13   The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York in the year 1871.  

Oct 14   Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman) in the year 1871.  

Oct 17   On this day in history great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa  

Oct 17   President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus in the year 1871.  

Oct 18   On this day in history louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)  

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Jan 05   In the year 1871 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 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   On this day in history birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer  

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)  

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

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   On this day in history 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   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   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 on this day in history.