Page 6: Historical Events In 1871

Sep 07   Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed on this day in history.   

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

Sep 08   Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1871.   

Sep 12   Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania in the year 1871.   

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

Sep 19   Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis) in the year 1871.   

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

Sep 23   In the year 1871 alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45   

Sep 23   Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer in the year 1871.   

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

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) in the year 1871.   

Sep 30   In the year 1871 john Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)   

Oct 01   General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht on this day in history.   

Oct 02   Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy in the year 1871.   

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

Oct 03   Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard) on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 08   Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1871.   

Oct 11   In the year 1871 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) on this day in history.   

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

Oct 17   President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1871.   

Jan 09   Charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player was born in the year 1871.   

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   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 in the year 1871.   

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 in the year 1871.   

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

Mar 18   On this day in history death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)