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

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

* 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 site was abandoned in 1871 by the army one month after being named Camp Pinal.

By April 1871 the mule trail and post were both completed and General Stoneman planned on making Camp Pinal his headquarters, but the project was abandoned after General George Crook replaced General Stoneman because of the Camp Grant Massacre of April 1871.

Camp Whitside is named in honor of Brigadier General Samuel M. Whitside, who served as commander of Company B, 6th Cavalry Regiment, at Fort Riley, between the years of 1871 and 1874.

King Camp Gillette's family was devastated by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

File: A Rainy Day in Camp by Winslow Homer 1871. jpeg | A Rainy Day in Camp, 1871, oil on canvas.

* 1871-1873, Camp Verde, built gradually from 1871 to 1873.

On April 30, 1871 white Tucson townspeople had organized a militia party that massacred an Apache Indian settlement at Camp Grant.

c. 1850-1875, chief of the Nadostusn clan ( Nddohots ' osn, Ndhodits or Naagodolts ' oosri-“ slender peak standing up people ”) as of the entire Eastern White Mountain Apache band, most respected and prominent Eastern White Mountain Apache chief in history, he maintained alliances with Hopi and Zuni, offered land for the establishment of Camp Apache ( later Fort Apache ), Pedro and his Carrizo band of Cibecue Apaches got permission from him to settle near later Fort Apache on White Mountain Apache territory, he and his band were generally ill disposed toward Cibecue Apache bands of Miguel, Diablo and Pedro, who had enlisted as Apache Scouts in 1871 and were scouting against “ troublemakers ” of Esh-kel-dah-sila's band )

-† 1871, Chief of the dominant local group and clan of the Carrizo band, during the 1850s and 1860s most prominent Carrizo chief, in 1869 Miguel and his younger brother Diablo initiated relations between Americans and the Cibecue and White Mountain Apaches, which led to the establishment of Fort Apache ( first as Camp Apache in 1870 ).

He supplied recruits for the first unit of Apache Scouts in 1871, because the Cibecue Apaches were forced to settle near Camp Apache on White Mountain Apache territory in spring 1874, he was killed shortly after during a feud with White Mountain Apaches, after that, Diablo took over leadership from his deceased older brother and avenged his death )

* Eskiminzin ( aka Hashkebansiziin, Hàckíbáínzín-" Angry, Men Stand in Line for Him ", * 1828 near the Pinal Mountains as a Pinaleño, through marriage into the Arivaipa, he became one of them and later their chief, he and his band together with the Pinaleño band under Capitán Chiquito were attacked by on April 30, 1871 in the Camp Grant Massacre, William S. Oury and Jesús María Elías, which blamed every depredation in southern Arizona on the 500 Camp Grant Apaches, contacted an old ally Francisco Galerita, leader of the Tohono O ' odham at San Xavier to punish them, 144 Apaches were killed and mutilated by Tohono O ' odham ( all but eight were women and children ) and 27 children were sold into slavery in Mexico by the Tohono O ' odham and the Mexicans themselves, † 1894 on the San Carlos Reservation )

In 1871, a group of six white Americans, forty-eight Mexicans and almost 100 Papago warriors attacked Camp Grant.

** Camp Three Forks, April, 1867-October 23, 1871

The outpost, named Drum Barracks, or Camp Drum ( 1861 – 1871 ), served as headquarters for the Union's Southwestern command for the state of California and territory of Arizona.

During the first reservation era, they were moved to the large Rio Verde Reserve, near Camp Verde, which was established in 1871 for the Tonto and Wipukepa or Northeastern Yavapai.

Survey Camp, Yellowstone National Park, 1871.

In 1870 the name was changed to Camp Brown and in 1871 the post was moved to the current site of Fort Washakie.

Although there were initial scandals in his first term, Grant remained popular in the country and was re-elected a second term in 1872. Notable accomplishments as President include policies for the protection of African Americans in the Reconstruction states as well as Native Americans in the West, the Treaty of Washington in 1871, and the Specie Payment Resumption Act in 1875.

The annexation treaty was defeated by the Senate in 1871 and led to unending political enmity between Sumner and Grant.

In 1871, Grant ’ s Secretary of State Hamilton Fish orchestrated the negotiation.

Violent opposition towards freedmen and whites who supported Reconstruction emerged in numerous localities under the name of the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ), a secret vigilante organization, which led to federal intervention by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 that suppressed the Klan.

Grant sent additional federal troops to nine South Carolina counties to suppress Klan violence in 1871.

* Emil Kriewitz, who lived with the Penateka Comanche, served as guide for Fisher-Miller Land Grant settlers, 1870 Llano County justice of the peace, 1871 Llano County election judge, and postmaster of Castell from 1876 to 1883.

In 1871, John Clayton was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing Jefferson County and in 1873, he served in the Arkansas Senate representing Jefferson, Bradley, Grant and Lincoln Counties, also serving as Speaker of the Senate pro tempore for part of his term.

This line was opened by U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar during a ceremony at the border in October 1871.

However, Grier retired from the Court, and President Grant appointed two new Republicans, Strong and Bradley, who joined the three sitting Republicans, Swayne, Miller, and Davis, to reverse Hepburn, 5-4, in the 1871 cases Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis.

Amos Tappan Akerman ( February 23, 1821 – December 21, 1880 ) served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1870 to 1871.

Gen. Akerman ruled on the newly formed Civil Service Commission passed by Congress on March 3, 1871 and signed into law by President Grant on March 4.

Akerman also had the legal authority to prosecute under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by President Grant on April 20, 1871.

After Grant had suspended habeas corpus in nine South Carolina counties on October 17, 1871 Akerman, who was in the state, personally led U. S. Marshals and the U. S. Army into the country side and made hundreds of arrests, while 2000 Klansmen fled the state.

In 1871 he was appointed, by President Ulysses S. Grant, to chair the commission on the reform of the civil service.

In 1871, however, he broke with President Ulysses Grant.

When the 42nd U. S. Congress convened on March 4, 1871 Senators affiliated with President Grant, known as ‘’ New Radicals ’’ voted to oust Sen. Sumner from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship.

He was the son of two teachers, Carrie Lena Fambro Still ( 1872 – 1927 ) and William Grant Still ( 1871 – 1895 ), who was also a partner in a grocery store and performed as a local bandleader.

Grant was elected as a Republican in 1868 ; after the election he generally sided with the Radicals on Reconstruction policies and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law.

On February 25, 1871, Ulysses S. Grant appointed Baird Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for the United States Fish Commission.

President Grant established the U. S. Fish Commission in 1871.

Grant appointed Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1869 to 1871.

In early 1871, the British government sent Sir John Rose to the United States to ascertain whether negotiations to settle the Northwestern boundary dispute would be acceptable to President Ulysses S. Grant.