Notable Historical Events - 1871
1871 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Belgium disbands salt tax |
Jan 2 |
King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 |
Jan 3 |
Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY |
Jan 16 |
Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman |
Jan 17 |
1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873) |
Jan 18 |
2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck |
Jan 19 |
1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey |
Jan 26 |
British Rugby Union forms |
Jan 26 |
US income tax repealed |
Jan 28 |
Paris surrenders to Prussians |
Jan 31 |
Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkening the sky |
Feb 1 |
Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing leniency to former Confederates) |
Feb 9 |
Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress |
Feb 27 |
Meeting of Alabama claims commission |
Feb 28 |
2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections |
Mar 1 |
J Milton Turner named minister to Liberia |
Mar 3 |
US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent |
Mar 3 |
US Congress establishes the civil service system |
Mar 16 |
1st fertilizer law enacted |
Mar 17 |
National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized |
Mar 18 |
Communards revolt in Paris |
Mar 21 |
Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa |
Mar 21 |
Otto Von Bismarck elevated to rank of Fürst (Prince) |
Mar 22 |
William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment |
Mar 26 |
Paris Commune founded |
Mar 27 |
1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0 |
Mar 28 |
SF Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine |
Mar 29 |
Royal Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London |
Apr 10 |
William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted |
Apr 14 |
Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills |
Apr 16 |
German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions |
Apr 20 |
3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus) |
Apr 23 |
Blossom Rock in SF Bay blown up |
Apr 30 |
The Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches in Arizona Territory, perpetrated by white & Mexican adventurers; 144 die |
May 4 |
1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double |
May 8 |
British-US treaty ends Alabama dispute |
May 10 |
Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany ends Franco-Prussian war |
May 12 |
Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky |
May 17 |
Indian fighter General William T. Sherman escapes Comanches in an ambulance |
May 21 |
-July 28] French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die |
May 28 |
Paris communards revolt put down |
Jun 3 |
Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000 |
Jun 10 |
5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56 |
Jun 10 |
Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. |
Jun 13 |
Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador |
Jun 15 |
Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school |
Jun 16 |
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC |
Jun 16 |
The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. |
Jun 20 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss |
Jun 30 |
Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms |
Jul 1 |
The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada |
Jul 3 |
Jesse James robs bank in Corydon, Iowa ($45,000) |
Jul 5 |
Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins |
Jul 20 |
British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. |
Jul 25 |
Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa |
Aug 29 |
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). |
Sep 7 |
Bay of Biscay: British warship HMS Captain capsizes, 500 killed |
Sep 17 |
Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens |
Sep 20 |
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. |
Oct 1 |
General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht |
Oct 2 |
Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy |
Oct 6 |
Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour |
Oct 7 |
16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters |
Oct 8 |
Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin |
Oct 8 |
Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation |
Oct 11 |
Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed |
Oct 12 |
US President 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. |
Oct 17 |
Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa |
Oct 17 |
President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus during US Civil War |
Oct 21 |
1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY) |
Oct 23 |
Columbia & Sappho (US) beat Livonia (UK) in 3rd America's Cup |
Oct 24 |
Mob in Los Angeles hangs 18 Chinese |
Oct 27 |
Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption |
Oct 30 |
Phila Athletics beat Chicago for 1st Natl Association baseball pennant |
Oct 31 |
Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum |
Nov 6 |
Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa |
Nov 10 |
Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' |
Nov 21 |
Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC) |
Nov 21 |
The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot |
Nov 23 |
Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens |
Nov 24 |
National Rifle Association organized (NYC) |
Nov 28 |
Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina |
Dec 12 |
Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum |
Dec 19 |
Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper |
Dec 24 |
Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at the opening of the Suez canal |
Dec 26 |
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. |
Dec 27 |
World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London) |
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