In 1871, Arthur Severn married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic John Ruskin.

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 Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

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 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.

Some of the buildings designed by the Sugdens are as follows: the Congregational Church with its 130 ’ spire, ( now Trinity Church ), built in the Victorian Gothic Revival style ( 1863 ), Myatt ’ s Mill in Earl Street ( 1864 ), Mill Street Methodist Chapel and Ragged School ( 1870 ), the Cottage Hospital, in memory of silk manufacturer James Allsop ( 1871 ), their own houses in Queen Street, complete with monograms for William, Larner and for Larner ’ s French wife ( 1877 ), West Street School ( extended in 1881 ), the District Bank, which exhibits a strong Richard Norman Shaw influence ( 1882 ) and the Leonard Street Police Station in Scottish Baronial style ( 1891 ).

Victorian Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller described Eucalyptus regnans in 1871.

The present St Stephen's Anglican Church, a fine example of Victorian Gothic architecture, was designed, like its predecessor, by Blacket, and built in the grounds of cemetery between 1871 and 1880.

In Victorian times Princes Street is still shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey map.

The novelette An Account Of A Meeting With Denizens Of Another World 1871, is an entertaining account of a UFO encounter, as experienced by a Victorian, but is notable chiefly for the framing story, in which Langford claimed to have found the manuscript in an old desk ( the story's narrator, William Robert Loosley, is a genuine ancestor of Langford's wife ).

Property and Inequality in Victorian Ontario: Structural Patterns and Cultural Communities in the 1871 Census.

On 9 January 1871, the Victorian Railways services began between Essendon and Melbourne, following an unsuccessful private railway operating from 1860 until 1864.

Rochdale Town Hall — a Grade I listed building — dates from 1871 and is one of the United Kingdom's finest examples of Victorian Gothic revival architecture.

Highcroft Hall was built between 1869 and 1871 by Victorian architect Yeoville Thomason.

Indeed, the concept of a single route called the Pilgrims ' Way seems to be no older than the Victorian Ordnance Survey map of Surrey, whose surveyor, Edward Renouard James, published a pamphlet in 1871 entitled Notes on the Pilgrims ' Way in West Surrey.

The Victorian Railways reopened the Flemington Racecourse line ( and therefore the Essendon line as far as Newmarket ) in November 1867, and in January 1871 reopened the line to Essendon.

The church was extensively restored in the Victorian period, work being completed in 1871.

Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope lived at Waltham House, Waltham Cross for 12 years between 1859 and 1871, where he wrote twenty-six novels and entertained his illustrious London friends.

Built between 1871 to 1876 in the Victorian Period Italianate style, it reflects the extravagant style of the period arising from a booming economy due to the Victorian gold rushes.

His writings include an introduction to Henry Merritt: Art Criticism and Romance, published in 1879 and Churches about Queen Victoria Street, a portfolio published in 1871, Victorian art and originality for the British Architect published in 1887, and The architecture of Queen Victoria's reign for the Art Journal, published in 1887.

Cox and Box quickly became a Victorian staple, with additional productions in Manchester in 1869 and on tour in 1871 ( conducted by Richard D ' Oyly Carte, with the composer's brother Fred playing Cox ), at London's Alhambra Theatre in 1871, with Fred as Cox, and at the Gaiety Theatre in 1872, 1873, and 1874 ( the last of these again starring Fred as Cox and Cecil as Box ), and Manchester again in 1874 ( paired with The Contrabandista ).

In January 2012, the Welsh Government announced the repeal the Abergavenny Improvement Acts of 1854 to 1871 which obliged the holding of a livestock market within the boundaries of Abergavenny town ; that repeal being effective from 26 March 2012.

On 28 January 1871 the Government of National Defense based in Paris negotiated an armistice with the Prussians.

After 1871, the Federal Government dealt with Indian Tribes through statute ; the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act also stated that.

On May 1, 1871, the Government of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $ 5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations.

Barnard wrote Treatise on Arithmetic ( 1830 ); an Analytical Grammar with Symbolic Illustration ( 1836 ); Letters on Collegiate Government ( 1855 ); History of the United States Coast Survey ( 1857 ); Recent Progress in Science ( 1869 ); and The Metric System ( 1871 ).

In 1871, the New Zealand Government decided to route the new railway south of Napier through a notional Karamu junction in the centre of the Heretaunga Plains.

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 ).

As this legislation required local authorities ' support the Poor Law Board was replaced with a Local Government Board in 1871.

Of the tobogganing, Lieutenant William Galwey, a member of the survey team that laid out the Canada – United States border and later visited Rideau Hall in November 1871, said: " It is a most favourite amusement at Government House.

From 1871 the Health powers were moved to the President of the Local Government Board.

Coast Survey Report submitted February 18, 1871, published 1873 by the U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Reports 1837 – 1965.

Besides the books which have been already mentioned he wrote: Organization in Daily Life, an Essay ( 1862 ), Casimir Maremma ( 1870 ), Brevia, Short Essays and Aphorisms ( 1871 ), Thoughts upon Government ( 1872 ), Life and Labors of Mr Thomas Brassey ( 1872 ), Iras de Biron ( 1874 ), Social Pressure ( 1875 ).

Category: Government agencies established in 1871

The board was abolished in 1871 and replaced by the Local Government Board.

The Local Government Board ( LGB ) was a British Government supervisory body overseeing local administration in England and Wales from 1871 to 1919.

The LGB was created by the Local Government Board Act 1871 ( C. 70 ) and took over the public health and local government responsibilities of the Home Secretary and the Privy Council and all the functions of the Poor Law Board, which was abolished.

* Local Government Board Act 1871 ( c. 70 )

The President of the Local Government Board was a ministerial post, frequently a Cabinet position, in the United Kingdom, established in 1871.

The Local Government Board itself was established in 1871 and took over supervisory functions from the Board of Trade and the Home Office, including the Local Government Act Office that had been established by the Local Government Act 1858, as well as the Poor Law Board, which it replaced.

* 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.

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 was appointed chairman in 1871 and served in that position the remainder of his life.

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.

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, 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.