In 1871 the student choir went on a fund-raising tour in Europe ; they were the start of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

An African American a cappella ensemble, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, consisting of students at Fisk University in Nashville have been performing since 1871.

The Fisk University Jubilee Singers toured first in 1871.

The name derives from the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, a group of male singers organized by students at Fisk University in 1871 to sing Negro spirituals, which had typically been sung by mixed choirs before then.

He was twice successful as the Glasgow University Conservative Association's candidate for Rector of the University, holding the post for two full terms between 1871 and 1877.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

* 1871 – The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests ( except for those intending to study theology ).

He used the term as early as 1871, while in 1869, Thomas Muir, then of the University of St Andrews, vacillated between rad, radial and radian.

After a conflict with that university he was appointed professor at the University of Odessa in 1871, and only two years later at the University of Moscow where he stayed the rest of his career.

* Papers, 1871 – 1917 and undated, of buffalo hunter John Wesley Mooar in the Southwest Collection, Special Collections Libraries at Texas Tech University

After the Franco-Prussian war ( 1870 – 1871 ), de Bary was appointed professor of botany at the University of Strasbourg, founder of the Jardin botanique de l ' Université de Strasbourg, and also elected to be the first rector ( president ) of the reorganized university.

Lie obtained his PhD at the University of Christiania ( present day Oslo ) in 1871 with a thesis entitled On a class of geometric transformations.

On May 1, 1871, the Government of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $ 5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations.

The University of Newcastle was originally founded by Lord Armstrong in 1871 as the College of Physical Science, later Armstrong College in 1904.

The arms were granted in October 1871 to Owens College while the Victoria University had arms of its own which fell into abeyance from 1904 upon the merger of the College with the University.

Malatesta was introduced to Mazzinian Republicanism while studying medicine at the University of Naples ; however, he was expelled from the university in 1871 for joining a demonstration.

Arkansas College and Cane Hill College were both founded in Washington County within a day of each other in 1834, with the University of Arkansas being founded in Fayetteville in 1871.

Arkansas Industrial University was founded in the growing community of Fayetteville in 1871 after William McIlroy a donated farmland for the site.

In 1871 a Baptist school, Judsonia University, was established in the area.

It was named after Charles and Augustus Storrs, two brothers who founded the University of Connecticut ( originally called the Storrs Agricultural College ) by giving the land () and $ 5, 000 in 1871

* Harry Burns Hutchins, President of the University of Michigan from 1910 to 1920, Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, organizer of the Cornell University Law School, Director of Owosso Public Schools during 1871 and 1872.

It was officially secularized by the University Reform Act of 1854 and the University Test Act of 1871, when it was opened to students and lecturers of all religious faiths or none.

In 1871, Dr. Samuel Lander established a girls school which eventually moved to the city of Greenwood, and became Lander University.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

Administered within the Prussian Rhine Province, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.

Berlin became the capital of the German Empire in 1871 and expanded rapidly in the following years.

In 1871, Berlin became capital of the newly founded German Empire.

Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858 and, in 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.

In 1871, Dominica became part of the Leeward Island Federation.

Elbing became part of the Prussian-led German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany.

The German Empire () is the common name given to the state officially named the ( literally: " German Realm "), designating Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.

Hamburg became a city-state within the North German Confederation ( 1866 – 71 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ) and during the period of the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 33 ).

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.

Along with the rest of Prussia, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the unification of Germany.

Otto Fürst von Bismarck became Chancellor of the German Empire | Chancellor of Germany in 1871.

With the rest of Prussia, it became a part of the German Empire during the unification of Germany in 1871.

By the second half of the 19th century, Berlin had been growing at a tremendous rate for some time, but its growth accelerated even faster after the city became the capital of the new German Empire on 18 January 1871.

With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into eastern Arabia in 1871, Qatar became vulnerable to occupation.

In 1871 Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, and in 1946 that of the Italian Republic.

In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.

Consequently, Silesia became part of the German Empire when it was proclaimed in 1871.

It became part of the German Empire in 1871.

Versailles again became the unofficial capital of France from March 1871, when Adolphe Thiers ' government took refuge in Versailles, fleeing the insurrection of the Paris Commune, until November 1879, when the newly-elected government and parliament returned to Paris.

Warmia became part of the German Empire in 1871.

In 1871, Montgomery County was formed from portions of Carroll and other counties, and Winona became the county seat of the newly formed county.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin became interested in constructing a " Zeppelin balloon " after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, where he witnessed the French use of balloons to transport mail during the early part of the war.

The resulting lagoon became stagnant, and was largely filled in 1871 with debris from the Great Chicago Fire.