Important Historical Events of the year 1871, Year 1871 in History

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events By Year
3. 19th Century Years
4. Important Historical Events of the year 1871

List of 1871 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1871

What happened in the year 1871?

Date	Event
January 3, 1871	In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
January 18, 1871	Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
January 19, 1871	Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
January 28, 1871	Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
March 1, 1871	The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
March 18, 1871	Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
March 21, 1871	Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
March 21, 1871	Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
March 22, 1871	In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
March 26, 1871	The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
March 27, 1871	The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
March 29, 1871	Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
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.
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.
May 21, 1871	Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
May 28, 1871	The Paris Commune falls after two months.
June 10, 1871	Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
June 16, 1871	The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
July 2, 1871	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
July 20, 1871	British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
July 29, 1871	The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
July 30, 1871	The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
August 11, 1871	An explosion of guncotton occurs in Stowmarket, England, killing 28.[4]
August 29, 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).
September 20, 1871	Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
September 28, 1871	The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
October 8, 1871	Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out.
October 12, 1871	The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
October 24, 1871	An estimated 17 to 22 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
October 26, 1871	Liberian President Edward James Roye is deposed in a coup d'état.
November 10, 1871	Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
November 16, 1871	The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter from New York State.
December 15, 1871	Sixteen-year-old telegraphist Ella Stewart keys and sends the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory at the Deseret Telegraph Company office in Pipe Spring.[10]
December 24, 1871	The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
December 26, 1871	Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts.