* 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 ).

* Prince Alexander John of Wales ( 1871 ), short-lived son of Edward VII

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

British Columbia joined confederation in 1871, followed by Prince Edward Island in 1873.

Die Proklamation des Deutschen Kaiserreiches by Anton von Werner ( 1877 ), depicting the proclamation of the foundation of the German Reich ( 18 January 1871, Palace of Versailles ). Left, on the podium ( in black ): Crown Prince Frederick ( later Frederick III, German Emperor | Frederick III ), his father Emperor William I, German Emperor | William I, and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | Frederick I of Baden, proposing a toast to the new emperor. Centre ( in white ): Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian Chief of Staff.

In 1871, Otto von Bismarck was raised to the rank of Fürst ( Prince ).

* 1871 – 1890: His Serene Highness The Prince of Bismarck

In 1871, he was further created Fürst von Bismarck (" Prince of Bismarck ") and accorded the style of Durchlaucht ( equivalent to " Serene Highness "); this princely title descended only to his eldest male heirs.

******** HRH Prince Alexander John of Wales ( 1871 )

Lulustein in 1871, commemorating Napoléon, Prince Imperial | Prince Louis Bonaparte's first cannon shot

This was exceptional ; since the constitution of 1871, only the Crown Prince had been allowed to act as Regent in the absence of the Monarch.

When Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, Prince Otto and his uncle Luitpold represented Ludwig, who refused to participate.

The west-coast British colony north of the 49th parallel, British Columbia, joined Confederation in 1871, and Prince Edward Island joined in 1873.

In 1871, having successfully treated the Prince of Wales during a life-threatening attack of typhoid fever, he was created a Baronet and appointed to be one of the Physicians-in-Ordinary to HM Queen Victoria.

In 1871, as Physician in Ordinary to HRH the Prince of Wales, Dr. William Gull took the chief direction of the treatment of the Prince during an attack of typhoid fever.

The Prince of Wales showed the first signs of illness on 13 November 1871, while at the Royal residence at Sandringham, Norfolk.

After extinction of the Barclay de Tolly princely line with his son Magnus on 29 October 1871 ( 17 October, Old Style ), Alexander II allowed the field marshal's sister's grandson through female lineage, Alexander von Weymarn, to assume the title of Prince Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn on 12 June 1872 ( 31 May, Old Style )

In 1871, the Liberals organized protests in favor of France-just defeated in the Franco-Prussian War-and implicitly against German Empire, the Conservatives, and Prince Carol himself.

* 1 December 1863 – 16 September 1871: His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck

Baroness Marie Alexandrine von Vetsera ( 19 March 1871 – 30 January 1889 ) was a member of Austrian " second society " ( new nobility ) and one of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistresses.

During a serious illness in 1871, the Queen dictated her journal entries to Beatrice, and in 1876 she allowed Beatrice to sort the music that she and the Prince Consort had played, unused since his death fifteen years earlier.

* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1826 – Alexander Afanasyev, Russian folklorist ( d. 1871 )

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.

* Bain, Alexander, English Composition and Rhetoric, 1871 ( facsimile ed., 1996, Scholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1497-2 ).

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 ).

* December 6 – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer ( b. 1871 )

* Alexander Murray, 9th Lord Elibank ( 1804 – 1871 )

* Alexander von Zemlinsky ( 1871 – 1942 ), composer

* August 7 – Alexander Stirling MacMillan, businessman, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia ( b. 1871 )

Alexander Spendiarov ( 1871 – 1928 ), Armen Tigranian ( 1879 – 1950 ), and Haro Stepanian are best known for their Armenian operas.

Male lactation was of some interest to Alexander von Humboldt, who reports in Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent of a citizen of the village Arenas ( close to Cumana ) who allegedly nurtured his son for three months when his wife was ill, as well as Charles Darwin, who commented on it in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ( 1871 ):

* George Francis Alexander Seymour, 7th Marquess of Hertford ( 1871 – 1940 )

* David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford ( 10th Earl of Balcarres ) ( 1871 – 1940 )

* Alexander Edward Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore ( 1871 – 1962 )

* Alexander Oliphant-Murray, 9th Lord Elibank ( 1804 – 1871 )

* Thomas Alexander Marshall ( 1794 – 1871 ), former U. S. Representative from Kentucky

* Sarema is the Circassian heroine and title character in the 1897 opera of that name by the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky ( 1871 – 1942 ).