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

Sep 08   Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Sep 12   In the year 1871 friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania   

Sep 12   In the year 1871 karl Collan, composer, dies at 43   

Sep 13   On this day in history alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)   

Sep 17   Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens on this day in history.   

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

Sep 20   On this day in history 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.   

Sep 21   Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier in the year 1871.   

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   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   On this day in history pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44)   

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   Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy in the year 1871.   

Oct 02   On this day in history 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   On this day in history fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour   

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

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   Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation in the year 1871.   

Oct 09   In the year 1871 gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)   

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

Oct 11   Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed on this day in history.   

Oct 12   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 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   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   In the year 1871 birth of james Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)   

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

Jan 10   Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 12   In the year 1871 birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer   

Jan 14   Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 10   Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

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   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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)