WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1871
Find out what all happened March to July 1871

The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (4. May 1871)

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. (2. July 1871)

The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris. (28. March 1871)

British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada. (20. July 1871)

The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory. (30. April 1871)

The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. (27. March 1871)

Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. (10. June 1871)

The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. (30. July 1871)

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law. (20. April 1871)

The U.S. Army issues an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska. (22. May 1871)

The first stage of the Brill Tramway opens. (1. April 1871)

Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. (21. March 1871)

Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, ordered evacuation of Paris. (18. March 1871)

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. (21. May 1871)

Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi. (21. May 1871)

The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology). (16. June 1871)

The Paris Commune falls. (28. May 1871)

Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. (21. March 1871)

The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. (29. March 1871)

In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. (22. March 1871)