1871 in the United States
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Events from the year 1871 in the United States.
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Incumbents
Federal Government
- President: Ulysses S. Grant (R-Ohio)
- Vice President: Schuyler Colfax (R-Indiana)
- Chief Justice: Salmon P. Chase (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of Ohio)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: James G. Blaine (R-Maine)
- Congress: 41st (until March 4), 42nd (starting March 4)
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Events
January–March
- March 22
- In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- The U.S. Army issued an order for the abandonment of Fort Kearny, Nebraska.
April–June
- April 20 – The U.S President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act.
- May 4 – The first supposedly Major League Baseball game is played.
- May 8 – The first Major League Baseball home run is hit by Ezra Sutton of the Cleveland Forest Citys.
- June 10 – Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on the Han River forts in Korea.
July–September
- July 21 – August 26 – First ever photographs of Yellowstone National Park region taken by the photographer William Henry Jackson during Hayden Geological Survey of 1871.
- July 28 – The Annie, the first boat ever launched on Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park region.
- July 30 - an explosion on the Staten Island Ferry kills 72 and injures 135
- September – Whaling Disaster of 1871: 1,219 people abandon 33 whaling ships caught in the ice pack off the northern coast of Alaska.
- September 2 – The disastrous Polaris expedition reaches 82°45′N, the northernmost latitude of any ship to that time.
October–December
- October 8 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire kills as many as 2,500 people, making it the deadliest fire in United States history.
- November 5 – Wickenburg massacre: Six men travelling by stagecoach are reportedly murdered by the Yavapai Indians in Arizona Territory.
- November 17 – The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- December 19 – The city of Birmingham, Alabama, is incorporated with the merger of three pre-existing towns.
Undated
- William M. Tweed serves his last year as the "Boss" of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York.
- The South Improvement Company is formed by John D. Rockefeller and a group of major railroad interests in an early effort to organize and control the petroleum industry in the U.S.A.
- The Harvard Summer School is founded.
Ongoing
- Reconstruction era (1865–1877)
- Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)
Births
- May 31 – John G. Townsend, Jr., United States Senator from Delaware from 1929 till 1941. (died 1964)
- July 27 – Ollie Murray James, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1913 till 1918. (died 1918)
- August 19th – Orville Wright, Birth day of the first man to fly an airplane. (died 1948)
- September 19 – Magnus Johnson, United States Senator from Minnesota from 1923 till 1925. (died 1936)
- October 14 – William Howard Thompson, United States Senator from Kansas from 1913 till 1919. (died 1928)
- October 17 – Thaddeus H. Caraway, United States Senator from Arkansas from 1921 till 1931. (died 1931)
- October 19 – Clyde M. Reed, United States Senator from Kansas from 1939 till 1949. (died 1949)
Deaths
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- April 2 – Jacob M. Howard, United States Senator from Michigan from 1862 till 1871. (born 1805)
- July 9 – John Slidell, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1853 till 1861. (born 1793)
External links
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