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| 1871 |
| | | An uprising results in the Paris Commune, followed by the siege of the city by French government forces | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Rome becomes the capital city of the entire Italian peninsula, for the first time since the Roman empire | |
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| 1871 |
| | | 18-year-old English entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes, on a temporary visit to South Africa, arrives in the new diamond town of Kimberley | |
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| 1871 |
| | | The Paris communards are overwhelmed in a battle at the Père Lachaise cemetery, which is followed by brutal reprisals | |
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| 1871 |
| | | US president Ulysses S. Grant uses the new Civil Rights Act to suppress the violent Ku Klux Klan in southern states | |
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| 1871 |
| | | Whistler paints his mother and calls the picture Arrangement in Grey and Black | |
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| 1871 |
| | | English actor Henry Irving plays what becomes one of his most famous parts, that of Mathias in the melodrama The Bells | |
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| 1871 |
| | | A fire in Chicago destroys a third of the city, to be followed by an extremely rapid and successful period of reconstruction | |
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| 1871 |
| | | British Columbia agrees to join the Canadian confederation on the promise of a transcontinental railway | |
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| 1871 |
| | | French author Émile Zola publishes The Fortune of the Rougons, the first in a 20-novel series that he calls Les Rougon-Macquart | |
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