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

In 1871 Clinchant commanded the 5th corps operating against the Commune.

He became commodore on 2 November 1871, commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1873 to 1875, became rear admiral on 30 September 1876 and retired in 1878.

In 1871 he helped reorganize a volunteer militia for the city of Williamsburg and James City County, Virginia, which he commanded.

On the 9th of December he had been made vice admiral, and in 1871 he commanded the fleet at Toulon ; in 1875 he was a member of the council of admiralty ; and in October 1876 he was appointed to command the evolutionary squadron in the Mediterranean.

He commanded the steam sloop in the European Squadron from December 1868 until November 1871.

It was shipped to London in the Little Catherine, a temporary packet commanded by John Vivian ( 1784 – 1871 ), nephew of Andrew Vivian.

Made prisoner of war at the capitulation, he returned to France during the siege of Paris by the French Army of Versailles, and commanded a brigade during the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune.

* 1871 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( d. 1945 )

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

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

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

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 ).

* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

This makes the Cubs, along with the Braves who were also founded in 1871, one of the two oldest active teams in major North American sports.

* 1871 – Bill Pickett, American rodeo performer ( d. 1932 )

* 1871 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player ( d. 1943 )

* 1821 – Charles Scribner I, American publisher ( d. 1871 )

* 1808 – Nathan Kelley, American architect, active mainly in Ohio, ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American bacteriologist.

* Jews and Baseball: Entering the American mainstream, 1871 – 1948, Burton Alan Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman, McFarland, 2006, ISBN 0-7864-2828-7

* 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist ( d. 1938 )

* 1900 – Stephen Crane, American author ( b. 1871 )

* 1925 – Clarence Hudson White American photographer ( b. 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 )

* 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal ( b. 1871 )

* 1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer ( d. 1943 )

* 1871 – Stephen Crane, American writer ( d. 1900 )

* 1794 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician ( d. 1871 )

* 1871 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player ( d. 1949 )

Claude Bernard's ( 1813 – 1878 ) further discoveries ultimately led to his concept of milieu interieur ( internal environment ), which would later be taken up and championed as " homeostasis " by American physiologist Walter Cannon ( 1871 – 1945 ).

* 1871 – J. Reuben Clark, American attorney, civil servant, and religious leader ( d. 1961 )

A serious rising against French rule in Algeria during 1871 – 72 was sparked off by the mutiny of a squadron of Spahis who had been ordered to France to take part in the Franco-Prussian War.

The first of these was a squadron of spahis recruited from Cochinchina in 1861 and disbanded in 1871.

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.

Easton's firm, inherited by his son James ( 1796 – 1871 ), grew during the nineteenth century to become one of the more important engineering manufacturers in the United Kingdom, with a large works at Erith, Kent.

In the same period, the Empire of Japan, following the Meiji Restoration ; the German Empire, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ; Tsarist Russia ; and the United States, following the Spanish-American War in 1898, quickly emerged as new imperial powers in East Asia and in the Pacific Ocean area.

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

In 1871, the colony began construction of a railway and, frustrated by Great Britain's Colonial Office, began negotiations with the United States.

Prior to 1871 the government of the United States regularly entered into treaties with Americans of the United States but the Indian Appropriations Act of March 3, 1871 ( ch.

" The rise of the German Empire since 1871 posed a new challenge, for it ( along with the United States ) threatened to take Britain's place as the world's foremost industrial power.

The causes of the panic in the United States included over-expansion in the railroad industry after the Civil War, losses in the Chicago and Boston fires of 1871 and 1872, respectively, and insatiable speculation by Wall Street financiers.

* The Treaty of Washington ( 1871 ), a general agreement between the United States and the British Empire

* December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War ( b. 1871 )

* July 23 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1871 )

In 1871 he was appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics at Yale, the first such professorship in the United States.

They were the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 ; the Weather Bureau, formed in 1870 ; and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, formed in 1871.

The United States premiere of Lohengrin took place at the Stadt Theater at the Bowery in New York City on 3 April 1871.

From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs during the Alabama Claims negotiations.

In response, the United States confronted Korea militarily in 1871, killing 243 Koreans in Ganghwa island before withdrawing.

Notable cases of wildfires were the 1871 Peshtigo Fire in the United States, which killed at least 1700 people, and the 2009 Victorian bushfires in Australia.

The United States Coast Guard built a three-story home at the lighthouse tower in 1871, but it was destroyed by fire on March 15, 1976.

In 1871, he made his first trip to the United States, to select the site for the Statue of Liberty, the creation of which would occupy him after 1875.

The Fish and Wildlife Service originated in 1871 as the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries, created by Congress with the purpose of studying and recommending solutions to a noted decline in the stocks of food fish.