1871 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1871?
- January 2, 1871 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
- January 18, 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles ( France ) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
- February 17, 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
- March 18, 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
- 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 27, 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
- March 28, 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
- March 29, 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- April 1, 1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.
- April 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- May 22, 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- 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 20, 1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
- 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.
- November 10, 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”.
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