1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

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January - April

• January 2 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
• January 10 - France surrenders to end the Franco-Prussian War
• January 18 - The member-states of the North German Confederation unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany.
• January 21 - Giuseppe Garibaldi's troops win in Dijon
• March 21 - Marriage of Princess Louise to John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India.
• March 22 - In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• March 26 - The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• March 29 - The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• April - Stockholms Handelsbank is founded.
• April 20 - United States President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act.

May - August

• May 4- First MLB baseball game is played.
• May 11 - First trial of the case of Tichborne Claimant begins in the London Court of Common Pleas.
• May 21-30 - French Third Republic.government troops invade Paris Commune and crush the rebellion.
• June 10 - Capt McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts in Korea.
• June 18 -- University Tests Act removes religious tests at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham.
• July 20 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
• July 20 - C. W. Alcock proposes that 'a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association', giving birth to the FA Cup.
• August 29 - Abolition of the han system in Japan.
• August 31 - Adolphe Thiers becomes President of the French Republic.

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1877 Paris - Poor Paris. They have just been through the Franco-Prussian War that ended 1871. Germany took back territory of Alsace-Lorraine
Wendell_Howe (Dr. Wendell A. Howe) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:29:22 -0000
1877 Paris - Poor Paris. They have just been through the Franco-Prussian War that ended 1871. Germany took back territory of Alsace-Lorraine
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@smartie999 All confiscated in the Night of the Long Harumphs, 1871. The Swiss don't like to talk about it & will deny it ever happened...:)
Mr_Geoff (Geoff Chadwick) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:02:42 -0000
@smartie999 All confiscated in the Night of the Long Harumphs, 1871. The Swiss don't like to talk about it & will deny it ever happened...:)

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