* 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 )

* 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 ).

Following the downfall of the French Second Empire the Four Quarters was again allowed a parliamentary seat which was granted by law on 1 February 1871.

Four years later, the school moved into its own Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

The most important of Skene's other works are: editions of John of Fordun's Chronica gentis Scotorum ( Edinburgh, 1871 – 1872 ); of the Four Ancient Books of Wales ( Edinburgh, 1868 ); of the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots ( Edinburgh, 1867 ); and of Adomnán's Vita S. Columbae ( Edinburgh, 1874 ); an Essay on the Coronation Stone of Scone ( Edinburgh, 1869 ); and Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene ( Aberdeen, 1887 ).

The first extended description of Skull and Bones, published in 1871 by Lyman Bagg in his book Four Years at Yale, noted that " the mystery now attending its existence forms the one great enigma which college gossip never tires of discussing.

The Four Communes of Senegal were entitled to elect a Deputy to represent them in the French Parliament in the years 1848 – 1852, 1871 – 1876, and 1879 – 1940.

* Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism ( 1871 )

Joyce in his The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, published in Dublin in 1871, dismisses as erroneous and an invention of later times, the theory that the Irish name for Buttevant meant the Church of the Curse, and cites the Four Masters noting that a Franciscan Friary was founded at Cill na Mullach in 1251.

Four acres of land at the end of Brean Down were requisitioned in 1862, with construction beginning in 1864 and completed in 1871.

Four historical events are commemorated by the four red stars on Chicago's flag: The United States ' Fort Dearborn, established at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1803 ; the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed much of the city ; the World Columbian Exposition of 1893, by which Chicago celebrated its recovery from the fire ; and the Century of Progress World's Fair of 1933 – 1934, which celebrated the city's centennial.

Many of Edward Lear's children stories and poems contain nonsense and are basically surreal in approach ; for example, The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World ( 1871 ) is filled with contradictory statements and odd images intended to provoke amusement, such as the following:

Among his publications are No Union with Rome ( 1871 ); The Priest in Absolution ( 1877 ); My Recollections of the Last Four Popes, etc., in answer to Cardinal Wiseman ( 1858 ); Orations, 2 decades ( 1851 ).

Four years later, in 1871, he was a full partner in the firm.

The first attempt at forming a " major league " produced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which lasted from 1871 to 1875.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players operated from 1871 through 1875, and is considered by some to have been the first major league.

This makes the Cubs, along with the Braves who were also founded in 1871, one of the two oldest active teams in major North American sports.

His early major works for the voice included The Masque at Kenilworth ( 1864 ); an oratorio, The Prodigal Son ( 1869 ); and a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea ( 1871 ).

Continental AG, founded in Hanover in 1871, is one of the city's major companies.

Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.

The construction of the Ringbahn around the city's perimeter, linked to all the major stations, allowed the connecting line to be scrapped in 1871, although the Ringbahn itself was not complete and open for all traffic until 15 November 1877.

The major characteristics of socialism ( particularly as conceived by Marx and Engels after the Paris Commune of 1871 ) are that the proletariat will control the means of production through a workers ' state erected by the workers in their interests.

* 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.

By 1871 he had met and befriended most of the major Pre-Raphaelite painters and it was in part due to their influence that the artist brightened his palette, varied his hues, and lightened his brushwork.

* The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, published in 1871 ; his second major book on evolutionary theory.

The first attempt at a national major league was the short-lived National Association, which existed from 1871 to 1875.

A major undertaking was the Apotheosis of Napoleon I, painted in 1853 for the ceiling of a hall in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and destroyed by fire in the Commune of 1871.

In December 1871, that company then became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was one of the major railroads at that point.

The town grew as a service-centre for the agricultural / pastoral hinterland between the Kakanui Mountains and the Waitaki River, and rapidly became a major port, starting construction of a breakwater in 1871.

The sale of Katy Industries to Union Pacific, in 1988, eventually saw the loss of scores of railroad jobs and, in effect, severed a major part of Parsons ' city history which stretched back to its 1871 incorporation.

The arrival of the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad in 1871 played a major role in the development of Piedmont, bringing many supplies and workers and creating a demand for local timber.

Due to this major victory, which also made the " Second Reich " of Germany possible, 2 September was declared " Sedan Day " ( Sedantag ) and a national German holiday in 1871.

The works included a major rebuilding of the great organ, originally built by " Father " Henry Willis in 1871 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 1924 and 1933.

Prussia never had a major navy, nor did the other German states before the German Empire was formed in 1871.

In 1871, Nogi was commissioned as a major in the fledgling Imperial Japanese Army.

The Chisholm Trail, laid out by cattleman Joseph McCoy along an old trail marked by Jesse Chisholm, was the major artery of cattle commerce, carrying over 1. 5 million head of cattle between 1867 and 1871 over the from south Texas to Abilene, Kansas.

The town of Peshtigo had a major fire on the same day, October 12, 1871, as the Great Chicago Fire.

The major patterns of kinship systems which Lewis Henry Morgan identified through kinship terminology in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family are: