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

* 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 ).

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

* Ioannis Metaxas ( 1871 – 1941 ), general and dictator of Greece

* METAXAS, Ioannis ( 1871 – 1941 ) Dictator of the 4th of August Regime.

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

The Sanskrit term has been in use in English since 1871, replacing gammadion ( from Greek ).

The Iron Cross was used as the symbol of the German Army from 1871 to March / April 1918, when it was replaced by a simpler Greek cross.

On 17 November 1919, Alexander married the non-royal Greek " aristocrat " Aspasia Manos ( 1896 – 1972 ) of the Manos family, the daughter of colonel Petros Manos ( 1871 – 1918 ) and his wife Maria Argyropoulous ( 1874 – 1930 ).

His Studien und Charakteristiken ( 1871 ; 2nd ed., 1889 ) contain valuable contributions to the history of Greek and Roman literature.

2 vols., 1881 ), and Le Christianisme et ses origines ( 4 vols., 1871 – 1884 ), the chief thesis of which was that Christianity owed more to Greek philosophy than to the writings of the Hebrew prophets.

Leonidas Pyrgos ( born 1871 in Mantineia, Arcadia ) was a Greek fencer.

* Greek Girls Picking up Pebbles by the Sea, 1871 ( 84 x 129. 5 cm )

In 1871, Tolstoy was in charge of the college reform, which would result in the prevalence of the classical education ( included Latin and Greek languages and ancient literature, among other things ).

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed ( 1871 – 1962 ) was an American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament.

The first reliable grammar of Cappadocian is Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A study of dialect of Silly, Cappadocia and Pharasa ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916 ), by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins ( 1871 – 1955 ), the first Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, based on fieldwork conducted by the author in Cappadocia in 1909-1911.

Lanman graduated from Yale College ( Phi Beta Kappa ) in 1871, was a graduate student there ( 1871 – 1873 ) studying Greek under James Hadley and Sanskrit under WD Whitney, and in Germany ( 1873 – 1876 ) studied Sanskrit under Weber and Roth and philology under Georg Curtius and August Leskien.

In 1871 he married artist Marie Spartali, a daughter of the Greek consul-general Michael Spartali, although without his permission.

Evangelos Gerakeris (, born 1871, date of death unknown ) was a Greek athlete.

Georgios Grigoriou (, born 1871, date of death unknown ) was a Greek athlete.

In 1871 he published a study of the subjunctive and optative moods in Sanskrit and Greek, which was the first thoroughly methodical and complete treatment of a problem in comparative syntax.

He revised an English version by several writers of Plutarch's Morals ( 5 vols, 1871 ; 6th ed., 1889 ), and published the Greek text with literal English version of Aeschylus ' Agamemnon ( 1906 ) for the Harvard production of that play in June 1906.

The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

The first metallic-cartridge bolt actions in general military service were the Berdan Type II introduced by Russia in 1870, the Mauser Model 1871, and a modified Chassepot, the Gras rifle of 1874 ; all these were single-shots.

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.

* The Treaty of Washington ( 1871 ), a general agreement between the United States and the British Empire

* November 1 – Pietro Badoglio, Italian general and prime minister ( b. 1871 )

Ever since the downtown clean-up after the Great Fire in 1871, Lake Michigan had been used as a dump by building contractors looking to get rid of backfill and general rubble.

This type of rod was revolutionized in 1871 when Hiram L. Leonard came up with a way to manufacture the Calcutta cane rods and making it affordable to the general public.

While many physicians in England at the time had lost faith in the general value of bloodletting, some still considered it beneficial in some circumstances, for instance to " clear out " infected or weakened blood or its ability to " cause hæmorrhages to cease "— as evidenced in a call for a " fair trial for blood-letting as a remedy " in 1871.

The first metallic-cartridge bolt actions in general military service were the Berdan Type II introduced by Russia in 1870, the Mauser Model 1871, and a modified Chassepot, the Gras rifle of 1874 ; all these were single-shots.

Tallula was incorporated as a village under Illinois ' general municipal law in 1871 or 1872.

The town's first home was erected in March 1871 by Scott Shipman, and its first business opened in June of that year, a small general store run by Henry D. Clark.

* William Harrow, ( 1822 – 1871 ), Union general in the Civil War.

* William Harrow, ( 1822 – 1871 ), Union general in the American Civil War.

The Watts and Murray general stores served railroad workers and farmers, and in 1871 a post office was established.

William L. Wetmore arrived in about 1871 and built up a business making hardwood charcoal and a general store.

Lots went on sale in August 1871, and businessmen flocked from the Copper Country and Marquette to open general merchandise stores, a general hardware and iron warehouse, three bakeries, a shaving and hair dressing salon, paint shop, tobacco and cigar store, several hotels, a dance hall, a railroad office, and a bank, among others.

Stillman Hazeltine put up the first building for a general store and town hall in the summer of 1871.

By 1871 the town had grown to include two blacksmith shops, one church, one school, one hotel, one wagon shop, and two general stores.

Hubbard's brother-in-law, Elijah Lindsey, anticipating growth around the new railroad, opened the fledgling community's first general store in 1871, and Lindale had its start ; Lindsey was elected the town's first mayor a year later.

In 1871, the German surgeon Friedrich Trendelenburg ( 1844 – 1924 ) published a paper describing the first successful elective human tracheotomy to be performed for the purpose of administration of general anesthesia.