Historical Events in 1871
58 curated events dated to this year, and 203 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1871
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Publication of 'Middlemarch'
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Publication of 'Rimas'
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Collaboration with Arthur Sullivan Begins
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Death of Sister Alice Cary
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First Major Publication: 'Poems'
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Opening of the Kimberley Diamond Mines in South Africa
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Publication of 'Song-Tide and Other Poems'
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Publication of 'Songs of the Sierras'
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Publication of 'The Descent of Man' by Charles Darwin
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Publication of 'Through the Looking-Glass'
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Rimbaud Formulates the Derangement of the Senses
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Rimbaud's Departure from Charleville
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Death of Elizabeth's Mother
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Death of Sister Phoebe Cary
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Family Relocation to Wiarton
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Final Publication Before Death
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First Innerspring Mattress Patent
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Paris Commune and Worker Self-Management Experiment
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Publication of 'Fors Clavigera'
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Publication of 'Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets'
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Publication of 'Songs Before Sunrise'
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Publication of 'The Poetical Works of Lord Houghton'
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Publication of 'Wake-Robin'
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Publication of Admetus and Other Poems
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Rediscovery of Troy by Schliemann
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Rimbaud's Hashish and Absinthe Period in Paris
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The Volatile Relationship of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
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Unification of Germany Proclaimed
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Friendship with Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Great Chicago Fire
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Marriage to Mary Ann Jones
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Pénaud flies the Planophore model aeroplane
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Stevenson Declares Intent to Become a Writer
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Wenham and Browning build an early wind tunnel
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Zenobe Gramme invents the Gramme machine dynamo in Paris
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American Arctic Whaling Fleet Disaster
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Camp Grant Massacre of Apache
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Christina Rossetti Diagnosed with Graves' Disease
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Christina Rossetti's Second Engagement to Charles Bagot Cayley
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Death of His Father, Francis Collins
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Father's Death and Move to London
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Hardy's First Novel Published: Desperate Remedies
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Indian Appropriations Act of 1871
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Lear Settles in San Remo and Builds Villa Emily
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Lewis Carroll Parodies Anglo-Saxonism in 'Jabberwocky'
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Lloyd's Act 1871 Incorporates Lloyd's of London as a Formal Institution
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Marriage to Mary O'Shaughnessy
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Oscar Wilde Studies Classics at Trinity College, Dublin
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Othniel Charles Marsh Discovers First American Pterosaur Fossils
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Robinson's Move to Gardiner, Maine
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Stanley Meets Livingstone
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Tichborne Case
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U.S. Fish Commission Established
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Universities Tests Act Opens Oxford and Cambridge
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Becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Birth of First Child
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Marriage to Abigail Perkins Vance
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Relocation to Avignon
Poets alive in 1871
203 poets
Poets in 1871
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