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In 1871, President Grant's appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, worked out an agreement with British representative Sir John Rose in Washington to create a commission consisting of six members from the British Empire and six members from the United States to resolve the Alabama claims, refinancing, and other international disputes between Canada and the United States by treaty. On March 8, 1871 the Treaty of Washington was signed at the State Department and the United States Senate ratified the treaty on May 24, 1871. According to the treaty, an international arbitration tribunal met in Geneva.
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* 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune ; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
After a brief spell as Budapesterstraße in the late 1920s ( although this name was not widely recognised ), on 6 February 1930 it was renamed Ebertstraße after Friedrich Ebert ( 1871 – 1925 ), first President of Weimar Germany.
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.
* February 28 – Friedrich Ebert, President of Germany ( Weimar Republic ) ( b. 1871 )
* June 9 – José Trinidad Cabañas, Honduran General, President and National Hero ( d. 1871 )
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.
In 1871, Civil War veterans led by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church organized the NRA in New York, with General Burnside as President and George Wood Wingate as secretary.
Victoria Woodhull, in 1871, called for men to open the U. S. government to women or a new constitution and government would be formed in a year ; and, on a basis of equality, she ran to be elected President in 1872.
* David Thompson ( businessman ) ( 1798 – 1871 ), President of New York Life Insurance & Trust Company
He was reelected as a Republican in 1859, 1865 and 1871, and served from 31 January 1855 to 4 March 1873, when he resigned to become Vice President.
Lincoln County is Arkansas's 65th county, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.
Juárez was controversially re-elected President in 1867 and 1871, using the office of the presidency to ensure electoral success and suppressing revolts by opponents such as Porfirio Díaz.
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.
* 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.
* Political Department as President of the Confederation ( 1871 )
He was President of the Confederation six times in 1865, 1871, 1874, 1878, 1885 and 1893.
In September 1871, President Brigham Young was indicted for adultery due to his plural marriages.
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.
He served as President of the Government of National Defense — France's de facto head of state — from 4 September 1870 until his resignation on 22 January 1871 ( although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871 ).
Noah Porter, Jr. ( December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892 ) was an American academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and President of Yale College ( 1871 – 1886 ).
Porter was inaugurated as President of Yale College on Wednesday, October 11, 1871.
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Grant's prosecution of civil rights cases under both his Attorney Generals Akerman and George H. Williams, lasted from October 1871 to the Spring of 1873 during his second term in office.
Akerman resigned in 1871 because of the beginning of corruption that plagued Grant's administration.
Sumner was then disposed of his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1871 by Grant's allies in the Senate.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1869 to March 4, 1871, during the first two years of Ulysses Grant's presidency.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873, during the third and fourth years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency.
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* 1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
General Ely S. Parker ( far left ), a Seneca, was the first Native American to be appointed as Bureau of Indian Affairs | Commissioner of Indian Affairs, serving until 1871.
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.
In 1871 he was appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics at Yale, the first such professorship in the United States.
John Neale Dalton was appointed as their tutor in 1871.
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.
He was conductor of " Barnby's Choir " from 1864, and in 1871 was appointed, in succession to Charles Gounod, conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, a post he held till his death.
In 1871 Smith was appointed Surgeon Dentist to Queen Victoria, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the nomination of John Hutton Balfour.
In 1871, the Queen appointed John Neale Dalton as their tutor.
Under the new constitution of 1871, the lieutenant governor and the Legislative Council, consisting of five ex officio or " official " and four appointed or " unofficial " members, governed British Honduras.
In 1871 he refused the Vienna embassy offered him by, but in August he was appointed minister of foreign affairs in succession to Jules Favre.
In 1866 he was appointed visiting lecturer at Pavia, and later took charge of the insane asylum at Pesaro in 1871.
He was appointed chairman in 1871 and served in that position the remainder of his life.
Campbell-Bannerman rose quickly through the ministerial ranks, being appointed as Financial Secretary to the War Office in Gladstone's first government in November 1871, serving in this position until 1874.
In 1870 he was appointed a member of the committee for revising the translation of the New Testament, and in 1871 he delivered the Hulsean lectures before the university.
In October 1871, he was appointed British representative on the international commission to maintain the navigation of the mouth of the River Danube, with headquarters at Galatz.
The position of Supervising Surgeon ( later Surgeon General ) was created to administer the Service, and John Maynard Woodworth was appointed as the first incumbent in 1871.
In 1871 he was appointed, by President Ulysses S. Grant, to chair the commission on the reform of the civil service.
In 1871, after five years working as a school teacher, he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
In 1871 the Victorian Government appointed the VRC as trustees of a site of 352 acres ( 1. 4 km² ) of Crown Land, next to the Maribyrnong River, which became known as Flemington Racecourse.
In 1871, having successfully treated the Prince of Wales during a life-threatening attack of typhoid fever, he was created a Baronet and appointed to be one of the Physicians-in-Ordinary to HM Queen Victoria.
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