1871 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1871?
- 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.
- 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 18, 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
- 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 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 30, 1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
- 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.
- September 28, 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.
- October 8, 1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
- 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 Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.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 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?”.
- 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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