Page 6: Historical Events In 1871

Sep 07   Bay of Biskaje: English warship HMS Captain fired on, 500 killed in the year 1871.   

Sep 07   Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns in the year 1871.   

Sep 08   Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1871.   

Sep 12   In the year 1871 friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania   

Sep 12   Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43 in the year 1871.   

Sep 13   On this day in history alma Kruger, Pittsburgh PA, actress (Made For Each Other)   

Sep 17   In the year 1871 mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens   

Sep 19   Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis) on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1871.   

Sep 21   Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier in the year 1871.   

Sep 23   On this day in history alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45   

Sep 23   Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer on this day in history.   

Sep 25   On this day in history arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies   

Sep 26   Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Sep 28   On this day in history pietro Badoglio, Grazzano Monferrato, Italy, General/Libyan Governor (1928-33) and Prime Minister of Italy (1943-44)   

Sep 30   On this day in history john Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)   

Oct 01   General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht in the year 1871.   

Oct 02   Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy in the year 1871.   

Oct 02   In the year 1871 cordell Hull, US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)   

Oct 03   Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard) on this day in history.   

Oct 06   On this day in history fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour   

Oct 07   In the year 1871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters   

Oct 08   A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago' on this day in history.   

Oct 08   On this day in history gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin   

Oct 08   Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4ýmiles (10 kmý) of Chicago buildings, and original Emancipation Proclamation in the year 1871.   

Oct 09   On this day in history gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)   

Oct 09   In the year 1871 the Great Chicago Fire runs out of fuel and burns out.   

Oct 11   Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed on this day in history.   

Oct 12   In the year 1871 pres 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 on this day in history.   

Oct 14   On this day in history alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)   

Oct 17   On this day in history great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa   

Oct 17   President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus in the year 1871.   

Oct 18   Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Ghetto) in the year 1871.   

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

Jan 07   Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) was born in the year 1871.   

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

Jan 09   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   In the year 1871 pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41   

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

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   On this day in history death of heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)   

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   On this day in history death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)