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1871 Calendar

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•  January 2, 1871 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
•  January 28, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
•  March 27, 1871 – The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
•  April 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
•  April 30, 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
•  May 4, 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
•  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).
•  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 Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
•  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.

•  February 4, 1871 – Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
•  March 26, 1871 – Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
•  April 6, 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales (d. 1871)
•  April 8, 1871 – Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
•  July 17, 1871 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and caricaturist (d. 1956)
•  September 10, 1871 – Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
•  September 27, 1871 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936)
•  October 2, 1871 – Cordell Hull, American statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
•  October 9, 1871 – Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1940)
•  November 10, 1871 – Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)