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In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire broke out, destroying an area of about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, a large section of the city at the time.
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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.
Artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire | Great Chicago Fire of 1871
As a result of the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city.
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Also among his principal works are: History of the Civil War in America ( 1863 – 1866 ), and The History of Frederick II, Called Frederick the Great ( New York, 1871 ).
The full history of Lyon & Healy is complicated by the destruction of its building and loss of company records during four fires including the Great Chicago Fire ( 1871 ).
" She traveled to Chicago to try her luck but lost some of her early paintings in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
* 1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.
In 1871, the colony began construction of a railway and, frustrated by Great Britain's Colonial Office, began negotiations with the United States.
Francis Herbert Wenham ( 1824 – 1908 ), a Council Member of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, addressed these issues by inventing, designing and operating the first enclosed wind tunnel in 1871.
The sarcophagus of William Butler Ogden in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx ) | Woodlawn CemeteryOn October 8, 1871, Ogden lost most of his prized possessions in the Great Chicago Fire.
In 1871, after the Great Chicago Fire, Medill was elected mayor of Chicago as candidate of the temporary " Fireproof " party, serving for two years.
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about in Chicago, Illinois.
* Chicago and the Great Conflagration – Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, 1871, 528 pp.
*" People & Events: The Great Fire of 1871 ".
* The Great Conflagration – James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton, 1871, 458 pp.
The fort was de-commissioned by 1837, and parts of the fort were lost to the widening of the Chicago River in 1855 and a fire in 1857 ; the last vestiges being destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
The blockhouse and the few surviving outbuildings were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
In addition to recognizing the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the fair also served to show the world that Chicago had risen from the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire, which had destroyed much of the city in 1871.
The resulting lagoon became stagnant, and was largely filled in 1871 with debris from the Great Chicago Fire.
Four years later, the school moved into its own Adams Street building, which was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Ever since the downtown clean-up after the Great Fire in 1871, Lake Michigan had been used as a dump by building contractors looking to get rid of backfill and general rubble.
The term vaudeville, referring specifically to North American variety entertainment, came into common usage after 1871 with the formation of Sargent's Great Vaudeville Company of Louisville, Kentucky.
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* 1871 – Alexander Loyd, American politician, Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )
He died in Chicago on May 5, 1871, two days after his resignation.
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.
On October 9, 1871 a fire swept through the city of Urbana, Illinois, south of Chicago, destroying portions of its downtown area.
* Although set in Philadelphia, Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier portrays the nationwide impact the 1871 Chicago fire had on the stock markets and the financial world.
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It is hard to determine how successful the Whirlwind was, as most of them were sold in Chicago and Boston, and it is likely that many were lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
At that point Sullivan moved on to Chicago in 1873 to take part in the building boom following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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.
Medill served as mayor of Chicago for one term after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
" The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O ' Leary, the owner of the cow which started the fire, and Tyrone Power and Don Ameche as her sons.
Allen Lewis was one of many investors to descend on Chicago after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, and helped to rebuild the city's west side.
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Relations between France and Germany deteriorated, and finally the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) broke out.
Federal troops and courts enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1871 largely broke up the Reconstruction-era Klan.
In 1871, however, he broke with President Ulysses Grant.
In October 1871, Sankey and Moody were in the middle of a revival meeting when the Great Chicago Fire broke out.
As quickly as 1871, most of those clubs broke away and formed the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players ( NAPBBP ).
Campbell had alleged that on the morning of July 15, 1871, in Thorndale, Middlesex County, Ontario, two black-faced men broke into George and Phoebe's log cabin home and brutally hacked George to death with an axe because he refused to hand over some money.
On Sunday evening, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out on the west side of the city, and with high winds, quickly got out of control, becoming the Great Chicago Fire.
Daniel " Pegleg " Sullivan was a Chicagoan who is often credited with being the first to sound the alarm when a fire broke out in Catherine O ' Leary's barn on October 8, 1871, the beginning of the Great Chicago Fire.
Thomas William Robertson ( 9 January 1829 – 3 February 1871 ), usually known professionally as T. W. Robertson, was an English dramatist and innovative stage director best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays produced in London in the 1860s that broke new ground and inspired playwrights such as W. S.
Rieger attempted a constitution a second time in 1871, when he conducted negotiations with the Hohenenwarth ministry for a federal constitution of the empire, which broke down owing to his extreme attitude in the matter of Bohemian independence.
Following this trip he lived in Paris from 1865 till 1871, and then returned to Holland when the Franco-Prussian War broke out.
By 1871 however, she broke off the engagement to attend college.
As a result, in 1871 most of the leading professional clubs broke away to found the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.
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