* 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 ).

The name " curl " was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

In 1871, she married James George Skelton Anderson ( d. 1907 ) of the Orient Steamship Company co-owned by his uncle Arthur Anderson, but she did not give up her medical practice.

Easton's firm, inherited by his son James ( 1796 – 1871 ), grew during the nineteenth century to become one of the more important engineering manufacturers in the United Kingdom, with a large works at Erith, Kent.

* 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician ( d. 1940 )

He held the post until his marriage to Evelyn Balfour, daughter of James Maitland Balfour, in 1871.

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According to Gibbs, the term " statistical ", in the context of mechanics, i. e. statistical mechanics, was first used by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

James Burrill Angell, who served as the university's president from 1871 to 1909, aggressively expanded U-M's curriculum to include professional studies in dentistry, architecture, engineering, government, and medicine.

* June 4 – James Pennethorne, English architect ( d. 1871 )

* The Great Conflagration – James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton, 1871, 458 pp.

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.

Clay and his wife had eleven children ( six daughters and five sons ): Henrietta ( 1800 – 1801 ), Theodore ( 1802 – 1870 ), Thomas ( 1803 – 1871 ), Susan ( 1805 – 1825 ), Anne ( 1807 – 1835 ), Lucretia ( 1809 – 1823 ), Henry, Jr .( 1811 – 1847 ), Eliza ( 1813 – 1825 ), Laura ( 1815 – 1817 ), James Brown ( 1817 – 1864 ), and John ( 1821 – 1887 ).

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At several points in his career James wrote plays, beginning with one-act plays written for periodicals in 1869 and 1871 and a dramatisation of his popular novella Daisy Miller in 1882.

In " A Passionate Pilgrim " ( 1871 ), the earliest fiction that James included in the New York Edition, the difference between America and Europe erupts into open conflict, which leads to a sadly ironic ending.

James County had been established by the Tennessee General Assembly in January 1871 and was named after Reverend Jesse J. James.

* James Montgomery, ( 1814 – 1871 ), born in Ashtabula County, colonel in the American Civil War, raided several towns in Missouri and the American South.

* Ollie M. James ( July 27, 1871 – August 28, 1918 ), a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1913 and the United States Senate from 1913 to 1918.

James Joshua Head ( 1839 – 1927 ) founded Headland in 1871 as " Head's Land ".

In 1871, James and Eloise Dawson established the first fruit cannery in Santa Clara County.

* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of US House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, lived in Auburn while an executive of the Auburn Automobile Company and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of U. S. House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, was born on a farm near Hamilton.

The city of Woodbine was originally founded as Lyons, named for the near-by creek, in 1871 by James Allen Gillett Sr.