May 29 » Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
July 14 » French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
November 1 » Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
December 22 » The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Alexander Suvorov and his Russian armies.
December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
Day of death April 18, 1871
The temperature on April 18, 1871 was about 10.0 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
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