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

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer ( d. 1969 )

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

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

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

The Christadelphian religious group traces its origins to Dr John Thomas ( 1805 – 1871 ), who migrated to North America from England in 1832.

* Stephen Hill, The Life of Brother John Thomas – 1805 to 1871 ( 2006 ).

* Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough ( 1871 – 1934 ), only son of the 8th Duke

John Alden Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871, and purchased a small trading post from Andrew Jackson " A. J.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

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.

Illustration by John Tenniel, 1871

* 1871 – John Maxwell, American golfer ( d. 1906 )

* 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician and diplomat ; 3rd Governor of California ; and former United States Envoy to Chile ( d. 1871 )

In 1871, Arthur Severn married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic John Ruskin.

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

* 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.

** John French Sloan, American artist ( b. 1871 )

* September 3 – John Lester, American cricketer ( b. 1871 )

** John Henry Pratt, English clergyman and mathematician ( d. 1871 )

* March 7 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1871 )

In 1871, as part of a political compromise ( see: Brooks-Baxter War ), Hadley was appointed Acting Governor after the resignation of Powell Clayton, a controversial figure associated with the Brooks-Baxter War.

James Clayton MBE ( 1871 / 1872 – 12 October 1946 ) was a British mechanical engineer who worked extensively on railway locomotives.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The construction work began in November 1869 and the mosque was finished in 1871.

The first person to experiment in this fashion was Francis Herbert Wenham, who in doing so constructed the first wind tunnel in 1871.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

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

With the dissolution of the German Confederation in 1866 and the founding of the German Empire ( Deutsches Reich ) in 1871, the Reichstag was established as the German parliament in Berlin.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

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.

This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the Australian Museum in 1871, but in the early 1990s, palaeontologist Pat Vickers-Rich and geologist Neil Archbold also cautiously suggested that Aboriginal legends " perhaps had stemmed from an acquaintance with prehistoric bones or even living prehistoric animals themselves ...

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

The following definition of " crime " was provided by the Prevention of Crimes Act 1871, and applied for the purposes of section 10 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1908:

It was declared a British colony and given the name British Honduras in 1871, gaining independence as Belize in 1981.

The name " curl " was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1871, Canada's first formal census was conducted, which counted the population of Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Quebec.

The census will cover all Grama Niladhari ( GN ) divisions of the country. The first scientific census in Sri Lanka was conducted on 27 March 1871.

In Nova Scotia, the population grew steadily from 277, 000 in 1851 to 388, 000 in 1871, mostly from natural increase since immigration was slight.