What Happened In March 1871 - Historical Events 1871 March

Historical Events for March, 1871

18th » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
21st » Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
21st » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
22nd » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first Governor (United States) e.g governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
27th » The 1871 England versus Scotland rugby union match first international rugby football match, when Scotland national rugby union team Scotland defeats England national rugby union team England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
28th » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
29th » The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.

3rd » Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
4th » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
5th » Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)
6th » Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937)
16th » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (d. 1951)
16th » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player (d. 1932)
19th » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (d. 1921)
23rd » Heinrich Schroth, German actor (d. 1945)
25th » Louis Perrée, French fencer (d. 1924)
26th » Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole of Hawaii (d. 1922)
27th » Piet Aalberse (1871–1948) known as Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician (d. 1948)
27th » Heinrich Mann, German author (d. 1950)
27th » Joseph G. Morrison, American captain and minister (d. 1939)
28th » Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (d. 1951)
31st » Arthur Griffith, Irish politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (d. 1922)

17th » Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802) or Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (b. 1802)
18th » Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician (b. 1806)
19th » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)