1871

Events

Births

Deaths

  • February 20Paul Kane, painter
  • September 23Louis-Joseph Papineau, aged 85, Canadian politician and leader of the Patriotes Rebellion.
  • October 10 - Octavius Catto, aged 32, American black educator.
  • October 18Charles Babbage, aged 79, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.

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