* 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 – Albert Lebrun, French politician ( d. 1950 )

* 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 ).

* October 19 – Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( b. 1871 )

The fact that electromagnetic radiation exerts a pressure upon any surface exposed to it was deduced theoretically by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871 and Adolfo Bartoli in 1876, and proven experimentally by Russian physicist Peter Lebedev in 1900 and by Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull in 1901.

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 ).

* June 19 – Richard Ernest William Turner, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross ( born 1871 )

* George Ernest May, 1st Baron May ( 1871 – 1946 )

Gubbins was appointed a student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service in 1871 ; English Secretary to the Conference at Tokyo for the Revision of the Treaties, after Ernest Satow left Japan in 1883 ; and on June 1, 1889, became Japanese Secretary at Tokyo.

* Ernest Rutherford ( 1871 – 1937 )

* Richard Ernest William Turner ( 1871 – 1961 ), Canadian soldier

* Ernest Nivet ( 1871 – 1948 )

There he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan ( 1871 )-a book credited with making such classical Japanese tales as the " Forty-seven Ronin " first known to a wide Western public.

** Ernest Rutherford ( 1871 – 1937 ), 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, known as the " father of nuclear physics "

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Ernest William Turner VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO ( 25 July 1871 – 19 June 1961 ) was a Canadian army officer during the Boer War and World War I, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross.

* Ernest Rutherford ( 1871 – 1937 ), chemist

* Ernest Cresson: November 2, 1870 – February 11, 1871

* Louis Ernest Valentin: March 16 – November 17, 1871

When Nell was 18 years old, she met and married 39 years old theatrical entrepreneur, Ernest Shipman ( December 17, 1871 – August 7, 1931 ).

But Ernest Hello is mostly remembered now for a series of philosophical and critical essays, from Renan, l ' Allemagne et l ' atheisme ( 1861 ), which was re-published in an enlarged edition posthumously, through L ' Homme ( 1871 ) on life, art and science in relation to present-day life ( it was in its 7th edition by 1905 ), and Les Plateaux de la balance ( 1880 ) to the posthumously published Le Siècle, probably his master-work.

Ernest Mason Satow met Hübner in Japan when he visited from July to October 1871 during his world tour.

He was the father of Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond ( b. 1871 ), a naval historian, and of Ernest Richmond ( b. 1874 ), an architect.

Davies was a principal organizer of the 1913 Armory Show and was a member of The Eight, a group of painters including five associated with the Ashcan school: William Glackens ( 1870 – 1938 ), Robert Henri ( 1865 – 1929 ), George Luks ( 1867 – 1933 ), Everett Shinn ( 1876 – 1953 ) and John French Sloan ( 1871 – 1951 ), along with Ernest Lawson ( 1873 – 1939 ) and Maurice Prendergast ( 1859 – 1924 ).

He became an agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad, continued his party activities, became a member of the commission researching the likelihood of the purchase of the Dominican Republic in 1871 and served as an elector for Rutherford Hayes in the election of 1876.

* William Rutherford ( mathematician ) ( 1798 – 1871 ), English mathematician

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1871, Canada's first formal census was conducted, which counted the population of Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

He moved to New York City in 1871.

Consequently, Abbott studied in New York City under Achille Errani, and made her concert début there in December 1871.

The number killed during La Semaine Sanglante (" The Bloody Week " of 21 – 28 May 1871 ) was perhaps 30, 000, with as many as 50, 000 later executed or imprisoned ; 7, 000 were exiled to New Caledonia ; thousands more escaped to exile.

Also among his principal works are: History of the Civil War in America ( 1863 – 1866 ), and The History of Frederick II, Called Frederick the Great ( New York, 1871 ).

* Kabyles du Pacifique, a group of Algerians deported to New Caledonia after an uprising in 1871.

* Valcour Island, near the New York shore is home to Bluff Point Lighthouse, built in 1871.

* 1871 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.

* 1871: Second New York City Orange Riot

There was still no such recognition in the U. S. This remained the case until June 10, 1871, when a bronze statue of Samuel Morse was unveiled in Central Park, New York City.

Statue of Samuel F. B. Morse by Byron M. Picket, Central Park | New York's Central Park, dedicated 1871

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Eighth Anniversary of Negro Freedom — New Year ’ s Day, 1871: On this occasion the Boston papers related that “… seldom is there an occasion of more attraction or greater general interest.

He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. ( 1804 – 96, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada ) and Nancy Matthews Elliott ( 1810 – 1871, born in Chenango County, New York ).

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In 1871, Woodhull went to the polls for a local election in New York and was allowed to register, but when she returned to vote, her ballot was refused by election officials.

The New Currency Act of 1871 stipulated the adoption of the decimal accounting system of yen ( 1, 圓 ), sen (, 銭 ), and rin (, 厘 ), with the coins being round and manufactured using Western machinery.

The United States premiere of Lohengrin took place at the Stadt Theater at the Bowery in New York City on 3 April 1871.

In addition to recognizing the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the fair also served to show the world that Chicago had risen from the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire, which had destroyed much of the city in 1871.

* – Joshua Rappleye, Seneca County, New York, Improvement in Constructing Wire fence – tensioner for fence with palings ( pickets ) ( 1871 )

Alsace and Lorraine: From Cæsar to Kaiser, 58 B. C .- 1871 A. D. New York: 1915.

In 1871 a Parisian, Louis Bonard, who lived with extreme simplicity in New York, died and left $ 150, 000 to the Society, which permitted a move to larger quarters, better adapted to its work, a building at the corner of 4th Avenue and 22nd Street.