Year 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1871
January - March
April - June
July - September
October - December
- October 8 - Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire kills as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history.
- October 20 - The Royal Regiment of Artillery formed the first regular Canadian army units when they created two batteries of garrison artillery which eventually became The Royal Canadian Artillery.
- 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.
- New York mayor Boss Tweed arrested
- November 5 - Six men travelling by stagecoach are murdered by Yavapai in the Wickenburg massacre
- November 10 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- November 17 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- December 10 - The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck tries to ban Catholics from the political stage by introducing harsh laws concerning the separation of church and state.
- December 19 - The city of Birmingham, Alabama (USA) was incorporated.
- December 25 - Reading Football Club formed
- December 26 - Thespis, the first of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, premières. It does modestly well, but the two will not collaborate again for four years.
Undated
Births
January - June
- January 7 - Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
- January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, Canadian-born actor (d. 1940)
- February 4 - Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany (d. 1925)
- February 18 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
- March 1 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (d. 1938)
- March 4 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
- March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (d. 1919)
- March 19 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (d. 1921)
- March 27 - Heinrich Mann, German writer (d. 1950)
- March 31 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
- April 8 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925)
- May 3 - Walter Robinson Parr, English-born pastor (d. 1922)
- May 6
- May 27 - Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
- June 14 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (d. 1946)
July - December
- July 10 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
- July 17 - Lyonel Feininger, German painter (d. 1956)
- July 18 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
- July 25 - Richard Ernest Turner, Canadian soldier (d. 1961)
- August 1 - John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969)
- August 14 - Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
- August 19 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer, co-inventor of the airplane with brother Wilbur (d. 1948)
- August 25 - Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher (d. 1912)
- August 27 - Theodore Dreiser, American writer (d. 1945)
- August 29 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
- August 30 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1937)
- September 1 - J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State (d. 1961)
- September 10 - Charles Collett, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer (d. 1952)
- September 24 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
- September 26 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist and animator (d. 1934)
- September 27 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
- October 2 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
- October 19 - Walter Bradford Cannon, Physiologist (d. 1945)
- October 30
- November 1 - Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
- December 9 - Joe Kelley, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1943)
- December 13 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
- See also Category: 1871 births.
Deaths
January - June
July - December
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