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.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

Monet and Camille Doncieux had married just before the war ( 28 June 1870 ) and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they had moved to Argenteuil, in December 1871.

Consequently, Abbott studied in New York City under Achille Errani, and made her concert début there in December 1871.

* Aida, 24 December 1871

On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell ( 1855 – 1884 ), whom he had met two months earlier ; she was an employee at one of his shops.

* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.

* Edward VII survived in December 1871.

The paper is now known for printing the first English version of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in its December 30, 1871 edition, and the paper " argued the cause of labor with eloquence and skill.

Grace and his brother Fred faced financial difficulty after their father died in December 1871 as they were still living with their mother who had been left just enough to retain the family home.

Grace endured a number of tragedies in his life beginning with the death of his father in December 1871.

* December 26 – Charles Babbage, British mathematician and inventor ( d. 1871 )

* December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American author ( b. 1871 )

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

* August 10 – At the Vienna Hofburg, the grand opening ceremony is held for the Imperial Natural History Museum (), begun in 1871 ; from August 13 to the end of December, the museum counts 175, 000 visitors.

* December 13 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1871 )

( Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz has argued that the scenario was actually written by Temistocle Solera ..) Aida was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871.

The Revised Version was finished in 1872 ( vocal score, 14 December 1871 ; full score 23 June 1872 ), and submitted to the Imperial Theatres in the autumn.

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945 ) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school.

In December 1871 he left the railroad yards for work on the railways as a locomotive fireman for the same company.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin ( December 6, 1805 – June 13, 1871 ) was a French magician.

He travelled to Russia in December 1871, spending nearly a year learning the language.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

By December they decided to try his plan and made him a Colonel.

The instrument was set up in November 1725, and observations on γ Draconis were made on the 3rd, 5th, 11th, and 12 December.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

The play made its Broadway premiere at the Palmer's Theatre on 21 December 1889, starring Beatrice Cameron as Nora Helmer.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

Karmal was made Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Chairman of the Council of Ministers on 27 December 1979.

The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely upriver from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships.

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19, 2005.

On December 10, 2009 the RingTales produced animations were made available as a calendar application for mobile devices.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

He was made captain of the battleship HMS Queen on 15 December 1908 until replaced 4 January 1910.

By the middle of December, some high-speed runs were made, in excess of but still well below Campbell's existing record.

With very strong national support, he made war on Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, calling it a " date which will live in infamy ".

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

On December 16, 1991, they made their first-ever signing, inking 16-year-old Dominican pitcher Clemente Núñez to a contract.

In addition to Greek Foreign Ministry meetings with Turkish officials, Greece ’ s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes launched an emergency inquiry on 27 December, ordering the investigations into the mid-1990s wildfires blamed on arson to be reopened with regard to the initial claims reportedly made by Yılmaz.

The occasion for the drunken banquets at which these oaths were made was December 25, the pagan feast of Jul: Bishop Hincmar, in 858, sought vainly to Christianize them.

It premiered in France in December 2008 and made its US debut on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2009.

Once Galileo < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s prime mission was concluded, an extended mission followed, starting on December 7, 1997 ; the spacecraft made a number of daring close flybys of Jupiter's moons Europa and Io.