October 1871 in History

Events in History

Oct 1 General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht

Event of Interest

Oct 2 US Mormon leader Brigham Young arrested for bigamy

Oct 7 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
Oct 8 Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people, making it then the deadliest wildfire in recorded history

Great Chicago Fire

Oct 8 The Great Chicago Fire kills an estimated 300 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation

Oct 10 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage
Oct 12 US President Grant condemns Ku Klux Klan
Oct 13 The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.
Oct 17 Great Britain annexes Griqualand, South Africa

Event of Interest

Oct 17 US President Ulysses S. Grant suspends habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina during prosecutions against Ku Klux Klan

Oct 21 1st US amateur outdoor athletic games (NY)
Oct 24 Mob in Los Angeles, California hangs 18 Chinese

Event of Interest

Oct 27 Democratic leader of Tammany Hall NY, Boss Tweed is arrested after the NY Times exposes his corruption

Oct 31 Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum

Birthdays in History

Oct 2 Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State (1933-44) who established United Nation (Nobel 1945), born in Olympus, Tennessee (d. 1955)
Oct 2 Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect, born in NYC, New York (d. 1959)
Oct 3 Stijn Streuvels [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard), born in Heule, Belgium (d. 1969)
Oct 9 Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar, born in Paoča, Bosnia and Herzegovina (d. 1922)
Oct 9 George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 1940)
Oct 9 Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-45), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1956)
Oct 11 Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader who founded the evangelical Brunstad Christian Church, born in Fredrikstad, Norway (d. 1943)
Oct 19 Walter Bradford Cannon, American physiologist (Wisdom of the Body, coined term "fight or flight response"), born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin (d. 1945)
Oct 26 Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer and father of Frida Kahlo, born in Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire (d. 1941)
Oct 29 Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens), born in Ermershausen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1946)