* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator ( d. 1941 )

* 1871 – The Camp Grant Massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.

* 1925 – Lars Jørgen Madsen, Danish rifle shooter ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer ( d. 1969 )

* 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer ( d. 1909 )

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1948 )

* 1789 – Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine military ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration.

* 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1937 )

* 1941 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer, father of Frida Kahlo ( b. 1871 )

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

File: Albert Pike Morals and dogma. jpg | Morals and Dogma ( 1871 )

* 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

* 1871 – Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer ( d. 1943 )

Bruckner was a renowned organist in his day, impressing audiences in France in 1869, and England in 1871, giving six recitals on a new Henry Willis organ at Royal Albert Hall in London and five more at the Crystal Palace.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945 ) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

Biographers agree that their marriage was in many ways a happy one ; however, some have asserted that Albert Edward did not give his wife as much attention as she would have liked and that they gradually became estranged, until his attack of typhoid fever ( the disease which was believed to have killed his father ) in late 1871 brought about a reconciliation.

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

Albert Emmet Kent bought the land from the Ross estate in 1871.

He was conductor of " Barnby's Choir " from 1864, and in 1871 was appointed, in succession to Charles Gounod, conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, a post he held till his death.

Albert François Lebrun (; 1871 – 1950 )

In 1871, the Royal Albert Hall was completed on the site of the former house.

In 1871 she married Albert Parsons, a former Confederate soldier.

Albert Herter ( 1871 – 1950 ) was an artist and painter.

File: Sierra Nevada Albert Bierstadt circa 1871. jpeg | Sierra Nevada ( c. 1871 – 1873 ), Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

* Albert Edward Smith ( 1871 – 1947 ), Canadian religious leader and politician

Before her death in 1871, she bore Remond four children: Amy Matilda ( 1859 – 72 ), Charles Lenox, Jr. ( 1860 – 82 ), Wendell Phillips ( 1863 – 66 ), and Albert Ernest ( 1866 – 1903 ).

In 1871, a new constitution brought about further changes to the group's name, offering the more modest Order of Saint John of Jerusalem in England, and, five years later, Princess Alexandra, Princess of Wales, was recruited into its membership, followed by her husband, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.

Of one version of the degree, Albert Pike wrote in 1871,

Thus, and although it seems that this has never been generally recognized, it can be argued that there was throughout the United Kingdom a construction of war memorials with reference to the concept of peace ( e. g. West Hartlepool War Memorial in what is now known as Hartlepool ( previously West Hartlepool ) with the inscription ' Thine O Lord is the Victory ' relating to amongs other architecture the 1871 Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences with a frieze including the same words and concluding ' Glory be to God on high and on earth peace ').

* Albert Lebrun ( 1871 – 1950 ), president of France

It was designed in 1915 by German optician Albert König ( 1871 − 1946 ) as a simplified Abbe.

With 7, 737 pipes, it was the largest organ in the country until a larger one was built at the Royal Albert Hall in 1871, after which an organ even larger than the one at the Royal Albert Hall was constructed at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, using over 10, 000 pipes.

The certificate is registered at la Grande Chancellerie No. 1871, and bears the stamped signature of the Duc de Plaisance Général Anne-Charles Lebrun, Grand Chancelier ( 1853 – 1859 ).

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

* 1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1871 )

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

* 1957 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist ( b. 1871 )

The French Republican Calendar () or French Revolutionary Calendar ( calendrier révolutionnaire français ) was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871.

* 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.

* 1871 – Marcel Proust, French writer ( d. 1922 )

* 1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer ( b. 1786 )

* 1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician ( d. 1956 )

The collection was part of the Department of Antiquities but was given autonomy in 1871 under Louis Courajod, a director who organized a wider representation of French works.

* 1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1935 )

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

* 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting.

* 1871 – Louis Perrée, French fencer ( d. 1924 )

* 1871 – Frantz Reichel, French athlete and rugby player ( d. 1932 )

* 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune ; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.

* The French Revolutionary Calendar, in force in France from 1793 to 1805 and briefly under the Paris Commune in 1871, began the calendar year on the day of the Southward equinox-September 22, 23 or 24.

In addition, French mobilization for the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871 made it necessary for Napoleon III to withdraw his troops from Rome and The Papal States.