* 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 incident was one reason why the U. S. returned in 1871 in what is called the 1871 U. S. Korea Campaign, or Sinmiyangyo, resulting in the deaths of about 300 Koreans.

In 1871 he sold the mill to Captain William Oliver and Mr. John T. Hardy who renamed it the Mississippi Mills.

In the spring of 1871, the Arapahoe Town Company was formed in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, under the leadership of Captain E. B. Murphy, for the purpose of establishing a settlement in the Republican River valley.

Although the trajectory of Silver City's development was to be different from the hundreds of other mining boom towns established during the same period, Captain Bullard himself never lived to see even the beginnings of permanence, as he was killed in a confrontation with Apache raiders less than a year later, on February 23, 1871.

She came from an upper class background, being the daughter of Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd Baronet ( 1837 – 1871 ) ( see Hawkins-Whitshed Baronets ) by his wife Anne Alicia ( née Handcock ) ( 1837 – 1908 ), and further back was descended from the aristocratic Bentinck family, and was therefore related to the Dukes of Portland.

He authorized Lieutenant Gustavus Doane to escort the Washburn Expedition in 1870 and for Captain John W. Barlow to escort the Hayden Expedition in 1871.

Mount Sheridan in Yellowstone National Park was named for Sheridan by Captain John W. Barlow in 1871.

She was born at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey, as Edith Maud Gonne, the eldest daughter of Captain Thomas Gonne ( 1835 – 1886 ) of the 17th Lancers, whose ancestors hailed from Caithness in Scotland, and his wife, Edith Frith Gonne, born Cook ( 1844 – 1871 ).

* Captain Robert Hall, 1871 – 1872

While looking through it, the two colonels came to a halt before the name of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an officer professing the Jewish faith and with family roots in Mulhouse, Alsace a province which had become German 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.

He would later gain the rank of Lieutenant, in his regiment, and Captain, in the British Army, on 15 February 1871.

Cowper entered the House of Lords on his father's death in 1856 and served under William Ewart Gladstone as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ( Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) from 1871 to 1874 and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1880 to 1882.

* Photo of Captain Porter and Maori auxiliaries at Opotiki 1871

He followed this with successful outings as Fitzaltamont in The Prompter's Box: A Story of the Footlights and the Fireside ( 1870 ), The Prompter's Box ( 1870, revived in 1875 and often thereafter, and later renamed The Crushed Tragedian ), Captain Craven in Daisy Farm ( 1871 ) and Lionel Leveret in Old Soldiers ( 1873 ).

ed., Captain Cox, His Ballads and Books, 1871.

Group Captain Frank Howard Kirby VC CBE DCM ( 12 November 1871 – 8 July 1956 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Captain Hoel and Elizabeth Hoel had two children: Sarah Elizabeth Hoel, born 18 December 1869, and Rion Hoel, born 15 September 1871.

On June 29, 1871, at 7 PM, the USS Polaris, sailed from the New York Naval Yard, under the authority of Captain Charles Francis Hall.

Port Broughton was surveyed in 1871 to service the surrounding wheat and barley growers on the recommendation of Captain Henry Dale.

The then Tui Cakau, Ratu Goleanavanua, became the first Captain Supreme of the Confederation of Lau ; he was succeeded two years later by Enele Ma ' afu, who reigned until the Confederation of Lau joined the united Kingdom of Viti in 1871.

John Sinclair was born at 6 Moray Place, Edinburgh to Captain John Sinclair ( 1826 – 1871 ), an officer in the Bengal Army and Agnes Sinclair, daughter of John Learmonth of Dean who constructed the Dean Bridge of Edinburgh, on July 7, 1860.

Captain Glassell surveyed a section of land for his brother and Chapman in 1871.

Captain Glassell surveyed the tract of land for his brother and Chapman in 1871.

John H. Steele was its editor from 1860 until his death in January 1871 and Captain Evan Howell was its city editor starting in 1868.