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

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

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 in the year 1871.   

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

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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1871 arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies   

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   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   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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 08   In the year 1871 gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin   

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

Oct 09   Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-) on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 18   Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto) in the year 1871.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player   

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

Jan 12   Paul Guthnick, German astronomer was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 14   Pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter) was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 15   Bertram Shapleigh, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 in the year 1871.   

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 on this day in history.   

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)