1871 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1871?
- January 19, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
- January 28, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
- March 21, 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
- March 22, 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- March 28, 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
- March 29, 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- April 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- May 4, 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- May 21, 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of “Bloody Week” some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
- May 22, 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- May 30, 1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
- June 10, 1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- June 16, 1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
- July 2, 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
- July 30, 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- August 29, 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
- September 20, 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
- October 12, 1871 – Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
- November 17, 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- December 24, 1871 – Aida opens in Cairo.
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