1871

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1840s  1850s  1860s  – 1870s –  1880s  1890s  1900s
Years:	1868 1869 1870 – 1871 – 1872 1873 1874

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 of Germany.
• 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.

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, writer (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.

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.