Page 6: Historical Events In 1871

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

Sep 07   On this day in history cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns   

Sep 08   On this day in history etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57   

Sep 12   On this day in history friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania   

Sep 12   On this day in history karl Collan, composer, dies at 43   

Sep 13   Alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other) on this day in history.   

Sep 17   On this day in history mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens   

Sep 19   Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis) on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 21   In the year 1871 ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier   

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

Sep 23   In the year 1871 frantisek Kupka, Czech writer   

Sep 25   On this day in history arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies   

Sep 26   In the year 1871 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   John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet) in the year 1871.   

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

Oct 02   In the year 1871 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   In the year 1871 stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)   

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 08   A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago' in the year 1871.   

Oct 08   On this day in history gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin   

Oct 08   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 the Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.   

Oct 11   Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed in the year 1871.   

Oct 12   Pres Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan on this day in history.   

Oct 13   The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York on this day in history.   

Oct 14   On this day in history alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)   

Oct 17   In the year 1871 great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa   

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

Oct 18   In the year 1871 louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto)   

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Jan 05   Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer was born in the year 1871.   

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 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   On this day in history birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer   

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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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.