1871

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Events

John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is published in Polish and Italian.
Future U.S. Representative Meyer London is born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, which was then part of the Russian Empire).
Declining immigration and out-migration causes Irish population in England and Wales to fall from 601,634 (1861 census) to 566,540.

Timeline

March 5: Rosa Luxembourg is born in Zamość near Lublin in Russian "Congress Poland."
March 15: First paid (non-volunteer) fire department in Philadelphia begins operating.
May 21-30: Army of the French Third Republic atatck the Paris Commune and brutally crush the popular rebellion.
June 10: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts in Korea.
October 10: Election riot occurs in Philadelphia's Fourth and Fifth Wards. Isaiah Chase and Octavius V. Catto are shot and another seventeen unnamed men are wounded.
October 27: Biss Tweed is arrested.
November 10: "Dr. Livingtone I presume." Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David Livingstone.

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