For similar reasons, concerned over poor marksmanship during the American Civil War, veteran Union officers Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association of America in 1871 for the purpose of promoting and encouraging rifle shooting on a " scientific " basis.

He married 1871 Edith Peers-William ( d. 1897 ), a daughter of Lt .- Col. Thomas Peers Williams, MP for Great Marlow 1820 – 1868 and Father of the House of Commons December 1867 – 1868, of Craig-y-Don near Beaumaris on Anglesey and Temple House, near Marlow.

The original commander was Col. William R. Manning ( 1817 – 1871 ).

Col. Ratcliff retired in June, 1871, and was replaced by Major-General Hinde, C. B., who held command until his death, March 1, 1881.

In 1871, he became the regimental adjutant under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

Michael, born 11 November 1865 ( Toodjay ), died 6 July 1940, married on 17 July 1896 to Beatrice Margaret Forbes born 20 June 1871, daughter of Col. Charles D ' Oyley and Mary Louise ( née Slade ), children: Leo born 1889.

By 1871 L. C. Orvis, manager of the `` Western Union Telegraph Company '', expressed willingness to send emergency telegrams on Sundays from his Village drugstore.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

* 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 )

Long disputed, the predominantly German-speaking region of Alsace or Elsaß was annexed by Germany in 1871 ; after World War I, it was reintegrated into France.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

In 1871 he commanded the 24th U. S. Infantry, an all African-American regiment with headquarters at Fort McKavett Texas.

* 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 )

Late in his life, Babbage sought ways to build a simplified version of the machine, and assembled a small part of it before his death in 1871.

* 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer ( d. 1909 )

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

The term was taken and redefined by the anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture, in which he defined it as " the general doctrine of souls and other spiritual beings in general.

* 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1948 )

Ambros was professor of the history of music at Prague from 1869 to 1871.

* 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.

Lots went on sale in August 1871, and businessmen flocked from the Copper Country and Marquette to open general merchandise stores, a general hardware and iron warehouse, three bakeries, a shaving and hair dressing salon, paint shop, tobacco and cigar store, several hotels, a dance hall, a railroad office, and a bank, among others.

Wenonah was founded in 1871 by Philadelphia businessmen as a country resort.

On July 20, 1871, several local businessmen purchased the struggling local pottery, incorporated, capitalized the company for $ 50, 000, and began to expand its lines to produce white earthenware for table and toilet use.

A formal organization promoting the new cathedral was created on April 28, 1871, and among the members of the St. Louis Cathedral Building Association were Archbishop Kenrick, Bishop Patrick John Ryan, and a variety of local businessmen.

On July 20, 1871, sixteen local businessmen purchased the struggling local pottery, incorporated, capitalized the company for $ 50, 000, and began to expand its lines to produce white earthenware for table and toilet use.

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.

Between 1869 and 1871, a school of light artillery was conducted at Fort Riley by the 4th Artillery Battery.

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

* David Thompson ( businessman ) ( 1798 – 1871 ), President of New York Life Insurance & Trust Company

In 1871, Industrialist James Thompson built a textile mill in the village.

As a scholar Thompson devoted his attention almost entirely to Plato ; and his Phaedrus ( 1868 ) and Gorgias ( 1871 ), with especially valuable introductions, remained as the standard English editions of these two dialogues for over forty years.

* Joseph H. Thompson ( 1871 – 1928 ), World War I Medal of Honor recipient and University of Pittsburgh hall of fame player and head coach

* Joseph Bryan Thompson ( 1871 – 1919 ), US Congressman from Oklahoma

In 1871, Richard Simpson proposed that some additions to the play had been written by Shakespeare, and a year later James Spedding, editor of the works of Sir Francis Bacon, while rejecting some of Simpson's suggestions, supported the attribution to Shakespeare of the passage credited to Hand D. In 1916, the paleographer Sir Edward Maunde Thompson published a minute analysis of the handwriting of the addition and judged it to be Shakespeare's.

* William Howard Thompson ( 1871 – 1928 ), United States senator from Kansas

A claim was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, but the grant was not patented to Manuela Carrillo de Jones and Francisca Carrillo de Thompson until 1871.

From 1868 to 1872 Thompson served on the Board of Supervisors of Alpine County, and was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in Sacramento in 1871.

Created from Orchard Shoals by the addition of landfill in 1872 and named for former New York City mayor ( 1866 – 1868 ), and then-current New York Governor ( 1869 – 1871 ) John Thompson Hoffman, Hoffman Island covers 11 acres ( 4. 45 hectares ), while Swinburne Island's area is about 4 acres ( 16, 000 m² ).

A Liberal-Conservative, Thompson sat in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons following his acclamation as member for Cariboo in the special byelection held in 1871 after British Columbia's entry into Confederation.