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.

At the age of thirty-three, Cleveland found himself elected sheriff by a 303-vote margin, taking office on January 1, 1871.

) On 16 February 1871 Adolphe Thiers was elected to be the chief executive of the new Republic.

Deputies of Polish nationality were elected to the Prussian Landtag from 1848, and then to the German Empire's Reichstag from 1871.

In 1871, after the Great Chicago Fire, Medill was elected mayor of Chicago as candidate of the temporary " Fireproof " party, serving for two years.

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 elected to the Paris municipal council on 23 July 1871 for the Clignancourt quarter, and retained his seat till 1876, passing through the offices of secretary and vice-president, and becoming president in 1875.

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.

He was elected to Congress in December 1870 and served until March 1871.

In June 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1871 delivered their Bakerian Lecture.

In 1871, John Clayton was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives, representing Jefferson County and in 1873, he served in the Arkansas Senate representing Jefferson, Bradley, Grant and Lincoln Counties, also serving as Speaker of the Senate pro tempore for part of his term.

Under a law passed in March, 1871, Girard became a city of the third class, and in the early part of April elected her first city officers.

* Joel Parker ( 1816 – 88 ), 20th Governor of New Jersey, elected to two non-consecutive terms ( 1863 – 1866 and 1871 – 1874 ).

Hubbard's brother-in-law, Elijah Lindsey, anticipating growth around the new railroad, opened the fledgling community's first general store in 1871, and Lindale had its start ; Lindsey was elected the town's first mayor a year later.

In 1871 he was elected deputy of the French National Assembly, and re-elected in 1876 and in 1877.

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.

He stood for election in Haute-Garonne in 1869 in opposition to the imperial policy and failed, but was elected to the National Assembly in 1871 and later.

He was Member of Parliament for Youghal from 1852 to 1865, and for Limerick from 1871 to 1879 ( at the 1852 general election he had also been elected for the English constituency of Harwich, but chose to sit for Youghal ).

He was elected to the Assembly on 8 February 1871, as a member of the extreme Left.

Resigning his post on the 5 February 1871, he was in January 1872 elected to the National Assembly, and in 1876 to the Senate.

In December 1871, he was elected a member of the Académie française in spite of the renewed opposition of Msgr.

In 1871 he became acting lieutenant governor upon the death of Oscar Dunn, the first elected African-American lieutenant governor of a U. S. state.

James Alcorn was elected by the Republicans as governor in 1869, serving, as Governor of Mississippi from 1870 to 1871.

On 8 February 1871 he was elected a member of the National Assembly, in which he maintained that the republic was " the necessary form of national sovereignty ", and voted for the continuation of the war ; yet, though a leftist, he did not sympathize with the Paris Commune, and exerted his influence in vain on the side of moderation.