1871

pCenturies: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

Years: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 - 1871 - 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876

Events

• January 18 - Wilhelm I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor.
• January 28 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War
• March 22 - In North Carolina, William Holden[?] becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• March 21 - Marriage of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom[?] to John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne[?], whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll[?], is the serving Secretary of State for India
• March 26 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• March 29 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• August 31 - Adolphe Thiers becomes President of the French Republic
• October 8, The Peshtigo, Wisconsin[?] fire, which burned 1,200,000 acres in one day
• October 27 the Comte de Chambord refuses to be crowned 'King Henry V of France' until France abandons its tricolour and returns to the old bourbon flag.

• Paris Commune in aftermath of Franco-Prussian War
• Foundation of the German Empire.
• Airy[?] discovers astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.
• British Columbia joins the Canadian Confederation.
• The Great Chicago Fire
• Abolition of the han system in Japan

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1871 in literature:

Births

• January 17 - David Earl Betty of the North Sea and of Brooksby[?], British admiral (+ 1936)
• February 4 - Friedrich Ebert, president of the Weimar Republic (+ 1925)
• March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (+ 1919)
• March 27 - Heinrich Mann, narrator, dramatist and essayist (+ 1950)
• May 6 - Christian Morgenstern, author (+ 1914)
• May 27 - Georges Rouault[?], painter and graphic artist (+ 1958)
• Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)

Deaths

• February 20 - Paul Kane, painter
• October 18 - Charles Babbage, aged 79, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines