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

1871 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1871 MDCCCLXXI
French Republican calendar	79
Ab urbe condita	2624
Armenian calendar	1320 ԹՎ ՌՅԻ
Assyrian calendar	6621
Bahá'í calendar	27–28
Balinese saka calendar	1792–1793
Bengali calendar	1278
Berber calendar	2821
British Regnal year	34 Vict. 1 – 35 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2415
Burmese calendar	1233
Byzantine calendar	7379–7380
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4567 or 4507     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4568 or 4508
Coptic calendar	1587–1588
Discordian calendar	3037
Ethiopian calendar	1863–1864
Hebrew calendar	5631–5632
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1927–1928
- Shaka Samvat	1792–1793
- Kali Yuga	4971–4972
Holocene calendar	11871
Igbo calendar	871–872
Iranian calendar	1249–1250
Islamic calendar	1287–1288
Japanese calendar	Meiji 4 (明治４年)
Javanese calendar	1799–1800
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4204
Minguo calendar	41 before ROC 民前41年
Nanakshahi calendar	403
Thai solar calendar	2413–2414
Tibetan calendar	阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1997 or 1616 or 844     — to — 阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 1998 or 1617 or 845

1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1871st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 871st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1871, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• January 2 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
• January 18 – Germany becomes a unified country called the German Empire when states of the North German Confederation and south German states of the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Württemberg, the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt 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.
• October 12 – The introduction of the so-called Criminal Tribes Act was enacted in British India.

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).
• July 23 – Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (Japanese old Lunar calendar 6 June was an incorrect date using in Gregorian calendar), First president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) (d. 1944).
• 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 10 - Octavius Catto, aged 32, American black educator.
• October 18 – Charles Babbage, aged 79, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.