Page 5: Historical Events In 1871

Jul 03   The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma" on this day in history.   

Jul 03   On this day in history vicente Arregui Garay, composer   

Jul 05   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies on this day in history.   

Jul 05   Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins in the year 1871.   

Jul 06   Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 on this day in history.   

Jul 08   Clement Harris, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 10   On this day in history marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)   

Jul 10   The birth of Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist in the year 1871.   

Jul 11   Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party) in the year 1871.   

Jul 12   North America's first public narrow gauge railway, the Toronto and Nipissing, is opened for traffic between Toronto and Uxbridge. The 3'6" gauge line was converted to standard by 1884 on this day in history.   

Jul 16   On this day in history tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln   

Jul 17   In the year 1871 karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29   

Jul 17   Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter on this day in history.   

Jul 18   On this day in history giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)   

Jul 20   On this day in history british Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province   

Jul 20   British Columbia is admitted to the Dominion of Canada. One of the conditions of entry is that the Dominion Government should, within two years from the date of union, commence the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains and from a point east of the Rocky Mountains towards the Pacific to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada. Sir Sandford Fleming was appointed Engineer-in-Chief of this railway which was to be completed by 1881 in the year 1871.   

Jul 22   In the year 1871 akos Buttykai, composer   

Jul 23   In the year 1871 c H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra   

Jul 25   Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa on this day in history.   

Jul 25   On this day in history carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa   

Jul 29   [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk in the year 1871.   

Aug 01   On this day in history oskar Fried, composer   

Aug 03   On this day in history vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928)   

Aug 06   Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher in the year 1871.   

Aug 08   William Henry Squire, composer in the year 1871.   

Aug 13   On this day in history karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

Aug 16   In the year 1871 zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer   

Aug 18   Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter) on this day in history.   

Aug 19   Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers) in the year 1871.   

Aug 21   In the year 1871 leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)   

Aug 27   On this day in history theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy)   

Aug 29   In the year 1871 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).   

Aug 30   In the year 1871 ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics   

Sep 03   In the year 1871 vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71   

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer   

Jan 07   In the year 1871 birth of Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)   

Jan 08   James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940) was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 09   In the year 1871 birth of charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player   

Jan 10   In the year 1871 birth of enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)   

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer   

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)   

Jan 15   Bertram Shapleigh, composer was born in the year 1871.   

Jan 10   Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41 in the year 1871.   

Jan 21   On this day in history john J Rochussen, gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73   

Jan 29   Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786) died in the year 1871.   

Feb 01   Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51 in the year 1871.   

Feb 07   Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797) died on this day in history.   

Feb 20   Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810) died on this day in history.   

Feb 26   Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 in the year 1871.   

Mar 18   In the year 1871 death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)