* 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 – 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 ).

* Leonid Andreyev ( or Andrejew ) ( 1871 – 1919 ), a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature

* 1826 – Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist ( d. 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.

* Olga Preobrajenska ( 1871 – 1962 ), ballet dancer ( according to other sources, she is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery )

The book was such an advance in chess knowledge that by 1871, it had gone through about 70 editions, and had been translated into English, German, Russian and Italian.

* Sergei Bulgakov ( 1871 – 1944 ) Russian

Following his breakdown, Balakirev sought solace in the strictest sect of Russian Orthodoxy, dating his conversion to the anniversary of his mother's death in March 1871.

In the 1870s the rapid development of Russian railways, the 1871 opening of the Libava-Kaunas and the 1876 Liepāja-Romny railways ensured that a large proportion of central Russian trade passed through Liepāja.

The Russian Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, believed that unless socialist revolution swept Europe, they would be crushed by the military might of world capitalism, just as the Paris Commune had been crushed by force of arms in 1871.

* A. u. polaris ( Staudinger, 1871 ) North Europe, Siberia, Russian Far East

Petrozavodsk is home to the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1933 ), the Karelian Musical Theater ( 1955, statuary by Sergey Konenkov ), National Library of Karelia ( 1959 ), Finnish-speaking National Theater of Karelia ( 1965 ), Petrozavodsk State University, a conservatory, a city museum founded in 1871, and a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 the area became known as " Dreikaisereck " (" triangle of three emperors ") as it was situated at the point where the Austrian, German and Russian Empires adjoined.

* Russian battleship Novgorod, a circular vessel laid down in 1871

From 1871 to around 1893 several Russian military-scientific expeditions mapped out most of the Pamirs ( Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, Nikolai Severtzov, Captain Putyata and others.

* Vladimir Andreevich Markov ( 1871 – 1897 ), Russian mathematician, brother of Andrey Markov ( Sr .)

The youngest son, Karl von Schlözer, a merchant and Russian consul-general at Lübeck, was the father of Kurd von Schlözer ( 1822 – 1894 ), the historian and diplomatist, who in 1871 was appointed German ambassador to the United States and in 1882 to the Vatican, when he was instrumental in healing the breach between Germany and the papacy caused by the May Laws.

trans., 4 vols, 1871 – 1879 ), which ceased at the end of 1811 with the preparations for the Russian campaign of 1812.

Khlebnikov was an Imperial Russian jewelry firm, founded in 1867 by Ivan Petrovich Khlebnikov in St. Petersburg, but transferred to Moscow in 1871.

They include persons as diverse as Apollo Korzeniowski, writer, political activist and father of Joseph Conrad ; Romuald Traugutt, leader of the 1863 January Uprising ; Jarosław Dąbrowski, later military chief of the 1871 Paris Commune ; Feliks Dzierżyński, a leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and founder of the Cheka secret police ; the Marxist theoretician and revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg ; the future Marshal of Poland, Józef Piłsudski ; Piłsudski's political archrival, Roman Dmowski ; and Eligiusz Niewiadomski, assassin of Poland's first president, Gabriel Narutowicz.

His publications were very numerous including Lectures on Clinical Medicine ( 1850 – 1856 ), which in second and subsequent editions were called Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, and were translated into various languages, including Russian and Hindi ; Leucocythaemia ( 1852 ), the first recorded cure of which was published by him in 1845 ; Outlines of Physiology ( 1858 ), reprinted from the 8th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis ( 1853 ); Textbook of Physiology ( 1871 – 1872 ).

In October 1871, Home married for the second, and last time, to Julie de Gloumeline, a wealthy Russian, whom he also met in St Petersburg.

Nikolay Vladimirovich Mezentsov (; April 4 ( 23 ) ( OS / NS ), 1827 – August 4 ( 16 ) ( OS / NS ), 1878 ) was a Russian statesman, adjutant general ( 1871 ), and member of the State Council of Imperial Russia ( 1877 ).

* Veselago Theodosius F. Brief information about the Russian naval battles in two centuries from 1656 to 1856 ( 1871 ) DjVu and PDF formats at Runivers. ru

As early as 1871 a commission of experts studied the geology of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and reported plentiful oil of good quality, but commented that poor transportation made it doubtful these fields could compete with Russian and American ones.