Page 5: Historical Events In 1871

Jul 03   On this day in history the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma".   

Jul 03   Vicente Arregui Garay, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 05   Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies on this day in history.   

Jul 05   Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree, begins on this day in history.   

Jul 06   Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34 on this day in history.   

Jul 08   In the year 1871 clement Harris, composer   

Jul 10   On this day in history marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)   

Jul 10   In the year 1871 the birth of Marcel Proust, French psychological novelist   

Jul 11   On this day in history stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Farmers' Party)   

Jul 12   In the year 1871 north America's first public narrow gauge railway, the Toronto and Nipissing, is opened for traffic between Toronto and Uxbridge. The 3'6" gauge line was converted to standard by 1884.   

Jul 16   On this day in history tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln   

Jul 17   Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29 in the year 1871.   

Jul 17   Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter in the year 1871.   

Jul 18   On this day in history giacomo Balla, Italian painter (Dog at a Rope)   

Jul 20   British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province on this day in history.   

Jul 20   In the year 1871 british Columbia is admitted to the Dominion of Canada. One of the conditions of entry is that the Dominion Government should, within two years from the date of union, commence the construction of a railway from the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains and from a point east of the Rocky Mountains towards the Pacific to connect the seaboard of British Columbia with the railway system of Canada. Sir Sandford Fleming was appointed Engineer-in-Chief of this railway which was to be completed by 1881.   

Jul 22   Akos Buttykai, composer in the year 1871.   

Jul 23   In the year 1871 c H F Peters discovers asteroid #114 Kassandra   

Jul 25   Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa on this day in history.   

Jul 25   Carrousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa in the year 1871.   

Jul 29   In the year 1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk   

Aug 01   Oskar Fried, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 03   Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928) on this day in history.   

Aug 06   In the year 1871 emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher   

Aug 08   William Henry Squire, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 13   In the year 1871 karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party)   

Aug 16   Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 18   On this day in history johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter)   

Aug 19   Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers) on this day in history.   

Aug 21   On this day in history leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist/writer (Red Laugh)   

Aug 27   Theodore Dreiser, US, novelist (Sister Carie, American Tragedy) on this day in history.   

Aug 29   Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871) in the year 1871.   

Aug 30   Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics on this day in history.   

Sep 03   On this day in history vaclav Horak, composer, dies at 71   

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Jan 05   On this day in history birth of frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer   

Jan 07   Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of james Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish politician (d. 1940)   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of charles Kortright, British(?) cricket player   

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)   

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of paul Guthnick, German astronomer   

Jan 14   On this day in history birth of pauline Beersmans, [PLJM van Cuyck], Flemish actress (Hofslachter)   

Jan 15   On this day in history birth of bertram Shapleigh, composer   

Jan 10   On this day in history pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41   

Jan 21   John J Rochussen, gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Jan 29   Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786) died in the year 1871.   

Feb 01   Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51 in the year 1871.   

Feb 07   On this day in history death of heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)   

Feb 20   On this day in history death of paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)   

Feb 26   Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Mar 18   On this day in history death of augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)