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.
- 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 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 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
- April 30, 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- December 24, 1871 – Aida opens in Cairo.
- December 26, 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
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