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Historical Event(s)
– Amadeus I becomes King of Spain
– Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
– The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
– French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of “Bloody Week” some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
– Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
– Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
– Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
– Bishop John Coleridge Patteson is martyred on the island of Nukapu, a Polynesian outlier island now in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. He is the first bishop of Melanesia.
– The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
– Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
Who Were Born On ?
– Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet (d.1913)
– Prince Alexander John of Wales (d. 1871)
– Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
– Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
– Theodore Dreiser, American author (d. 1945)
– Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
– Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)
– Stephen Crane, American writer (d. 1900)
– Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950)