1871 Calendar
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1871 Historical Event(s)
- 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 Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.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.
Who Were Born On 1871?
- 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)