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   In the year 1871 alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)  

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

Sep 19   On this day in history fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis)  

Sep 20   In the year 1871 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 on this day in history.  

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

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   Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1871.  

Sep 28   In the year 1871 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   In the year 1871 general Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht  

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

Oct 06   On this day in history fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour  

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

Oct 08   A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago' on this day in history.  

Oct 08   Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin in the year 1871.  

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   Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-) in the year 1871.  

Oct 09   On this day in history 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   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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history president Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus  

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   Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 14   In the year 1871 birth of pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)  

Jan 15   On this day in history 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 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   On this day in history death of heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)  

Feb 20   In the year 1871 death of paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)  

Feb 26   In the year 1871 charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76  

Mar 18   Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806) died in the year 1871.