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1871 Calendar

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•  January 28, 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
•  February 17, 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
•  March 21, 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
•  March 28, 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
•  April 20, 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
•  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.
•  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 20, 1871 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
•  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 Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.

•  January 5, 1871 – Frederick Converse, American composer (d. 1940)
•  January 8, 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)
•  January 17, 1871 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940)
•  February 14, 1871 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
•  May 19, 1871 – Walter Russell, American polymath (d. 1963)
•  August 19, 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
•  August 29, 1871 – Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
•  October 9, 1871 – Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian Catholic bishop (d. 1940)
•  October 11, 1871 – Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader (d. 1943)