1871
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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years: 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 - 1871 - 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876
[edit] Events
- January 2 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
- January 18 - Germany becomes a country when states of the North German Confederation unite. The King of Prussia becomes the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I.
- January 10 - France surrenders (gives up) to end the Franco-Prussian War
- March 22 - In North Carolina, William Holden is the first American governor (leader of a U.S. state) to be impeached (removed from office)
- March 26 - The Paris Commune takes power in Paris.
- March 29 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
- April - Stockholms Handelsbank is formed.
[edit] Births
- January 17 - David Earl Betty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, British admiral (navy leader) (d. 1936)
- January 30 - Wilfred Lucas, actor (d. 1940)
- February 4 - Friedrich Ebert, president of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
- March 5 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (d. 1919)
- March 27 - Heinrich Mann, speaker and writer (d. 1950)
- May 6 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914)
- May 27 - Georges Rouault, painter and artist (d. 1958).
- August 19 - Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, Americans who invented the airplane.
- August 29 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
- September 27 - Grazia Deledda, Sardinian writer - Nobel prize (d. 1936)
- December 13 - Emily Carr, Canadian artist and writer.
- Richard Turner, Canadian soldier with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, who got the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Second Boer War.
- Guangxu, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.
[edit] Deaths
- February 20 - Paul Kane, painter
- September 23 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, aged 85, Canadian politician and leader of the Patriotes Rebellion.
- October 18 - Charles Babbage, aged 79, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.
