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In 1871, the British Admiralty paid Whitehead £ 15, 000 for certain of his developments and production started at the Royal Laboratories in Woolwich the following year.
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1871 and British
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The Survey sent him to Europe five times, first in 1871 as part of a group sent to observe a solar eclipse ; there, he sought out Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons, and William Kingdon Clifford, British mathematicians and logicians whose turn of mind resembled his own.
It was declared a British colony and given the name British Honduras in 1871, gaining independence as Belize in 1981.
British Columbia joined confederation in 1871, followed by Prince Edward Island in 1873.
* 1871 – David Earl Beatty British admiral ( d. 1936 )
* 1871 – Saint George Ashe, British rower ( d. 1922 )
* 1871 – Criminal Tribes Act ( CTA ) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities ' Criminal Tribes ', i. e. hereditary criminals.
As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join Canadian Confederation, the government had agreed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a transcontinental railway linking the Pacific Province to the eastern provinces.
* Henry Stephenson ( 1871 – 1956 ), British actor
The 1871 Martini-Henry which replaced the " trapdoor " Snider-Enfield was the standard British Army rifle of the later Victorian era, and the Martini was also a popular action for civilian rifles.
* The Treaty of Washington ( 1871 ), a general agreement between the United States and the British Empire
* December 26 – Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor ( d. 1871 )
* April 6 – Seymour Hicks, British actor ( b. 1871 )
* April 24 – Henry Stephenson, British character actor ( b. 1871 )
* March 11 – David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral ( b. 1871 )
* March 24 – Walter Parr, British preacher ( b. 1871 )
When Gérôme exhibited For Sale ; Slaves at Cairo at the Royal Academy in London in 1871, it was " widely found offensive ", perhaps partly because the British liked to think they had successfully suppressed the slave trade in Egypt, also for cruelty and " representing fleshiness for its own sake ".
A copy of Vega's Thesaurus belonging to the private collection of the British mathematician and computing pioneer Charles Babbage ( 1791 – 1871 ) is preserved at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
On 17 March 1857, Reuter was naturalised as a British subject, and on September 7, 1871, the German Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha conferred a barony ( Freiherr ) on Julius Reuter.
In 1871, under the recommendations of the Royal Society of London, the British government sponsored an expedition to explore world's oceans and conduct scientific investigations.
The breed was defined in the 19th century and British Shorthairs were shown at the 1871 Crystal Palace cat show.
* The British Medical Journal 1870 – 1871 editions have numerous reports of Stanley's progress in attempting to track down David Livingston.
The colonies of Vancouver Island, founded in 1849, and the Colony of British Columbia, founded in 1858, were combined in 1866 with the name Crown Colony of British Columbia until joining Confederation in 1871.
1871 and Admiralty
When Gladstone became prime minister in December 1868, Goschen joined the cabinet as President of the Poor Law Board, until March 1871, when he succeeded Childers as First Lord of the Admiralty.
In April 1871 Tryon was appointed private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, George Goschen.
1871 and paid
In 1871, Cyrus and Susan Mills paid $ 5, 000 for the Young Ladies ' Seminary in Benicia, renamed it Mills College, and moved it to its current location in Oakland, adjacent to what is now Seminary Boulevard.
The first land assessments were made in 1871, and in 1872, the first taxes were paid.
In 1871 the last of the debts incurred in the course of funding the canal including the Pelican Life Assurance Company loan were paid off.
Following the death of the 7th earl in 1871, the Estate passed to his widowed mother, Anne Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Chesterfield ( 1802 – 1885 ), whose good friend, Benjamin Disraeli, paid frequent visits to Bretby.
The French Army paid dearly for this bias in 1870 and 1871.
Kate traveled to England in 1871, the trip paid for by a wealthy New York banker, so that she would not be compelled to accept payment for her services as a medium.
Robson's advocacy eventually paid off when British Columbia was admitted as the sixth province on July 20, 1871.
It was recorded that angklung was brought to Siam in 1908 by Luang Pradit Pairoh, royal musician in the entourage of HRH Field Marshal Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse of Siam, who paid a royal visit to Java that year ( 27 years after the first state visit of his elder brother, King Chulalongkorn to Java in 1871.
In the summer of 1871 he paid £ 2, 000 to purchase a full majority in the 90th Light Infantry, one of the last such transactions before purchase of commissions was abolished.
The Prussian Army held a brief victory parade in Paris on February 17, 1871, and Bismarck honored the armistice by sending train-loads of food into Paris and withdrawing Prussian forces to the east of the city, which would be withdrawn as soon as France paid the agreed war indemnity.
1871 and £
Repair work took until May 1871 and cost over £ 2, 000.
In 1871 he gave £ 2000 for the poor of Paris, under siege by the Prussians.
Chesham cottage hospital, built for £ 865 17s 11d on land provided by Lord Chesham, opened in October 1869 and just ahead of an outbreak of typhoid in 1871.
In 1871, the WSR had agreed a new perpetual lease to the B & ER for a fixed sum each year which rose annually to a maximum of £ 6, 600.
In 1885 Kellys described the school as an " elementary School ( mixed ), built in 1871, at a cost of £ 1, 200, for 120 children, with an average attendance of 112 ; & supported by voluntary subscriptions, school pence & government grant.
Through fundraising, £ 7, 000 were collected, which allowed for the purchase of land either at Hitchin or near Cambridge in 1871.
The two 450-page volumes together were priced at £ 1 4 shillings, and The Descent of Man was published on 24 February 1871.
Within three weeks of publication, a reprint had been ordered ; and 4, 500 copies were in print by the end of March 1871, netting Darwin almost £ 1, 500.
The design for the fort was altered slightly and it was completed in 1871 for twenty two guns in casemates with five heavier guns in open positions on the roof. The estimated cost of Fort Gilkicker in 1869 was £ 61, 395, the actual cost on completion being £ 58, 766.
In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for £ 25, 000 ( payable in five installments over two years ) and the firm remained in the Campbell family ownership for many years.
In 1871 the zoo acquired four giraffes, and the following year an elephant, Maharajah, was bought for £ 680 from Wombwell's Menagerie No. 1 in Edinburgh.
On 4 September 1871, at the age of nineteen, he left England with £ 400 in his pocket, determined to earn his living as a professional elephant hunter, and by the age of twenty five he was known far and wide in South Africa as one of the most successful ivory hunters of the day.
Building the road cost nearly one and a quarter million dollars, and left a standing debt of £ 112, 780 after its completion, one of many infrastructure costs in servicing the Gold Colony that forced its amalgamation first with Vancouver Island ( 1866 ), and then with Canada ( 1871 confederation ).
Within three weeks a reprint had been ordered, and 4, 500 copies were in print by the end of March 1871, netting Darwin almost £ 1, 500.
The first fair was held in 1871 and raised over £ 1000 for this charitable cause.
In 1871, the lease of the island was sold for £ 55, 000 and then sold again for £ 110, 000 to the New Sombrero Phosphate Company, which led to litigation in Erlanger v. New Sombrero Phosphate Co ( 1878 ) 3 App Cas 1218.
He was made Companion of The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India ( C. S. I ) in 1871 ; and in 1872 he was created a Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom in recognition of his donations to the Indian Institute in London and other charitable causes in Bombay amounting to approximately £ 200, 000.
Despite this the canal company tried to run the canal itself for a few years before selling it for £ 520 in 1871.
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