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   Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns on this day in history.   

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

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   In the year 1871 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 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 23   On this day in history alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45   

Sep 23   On this day in history 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) in the year 1871.   

Sep 30   John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet) on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)   

Oct 06   In the year 1871 fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour   

Oct 07   16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Oct 13   In the year 1871 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   In the year 1871 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   Paul Guthnick, German astronomer was born in the year 1871.   

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

Jan 15   Bertram Shapleigh, composer was born in the year 1871.   

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   Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786) died on this day in history.   

Feb 01   Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1871.