360What happened in 1871?
5 moments from 1871 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- On this day · 8 October 1871
The Great Chicago Fire
On 8 October 1871, a fire broke out in a barn in Chicago and spread through the wooden city for two days, destroying about 17,000 buildings and leaving about 100,000 people homeless. The city was rebuilt quickly, and in 1885 it built one of the first skyscrapers.
- On this day · 10 November 1871
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
On 10 November 1871, by the most common account, the journalist Henry Morton Stanley found the Scottish explorer David Livingstone at Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, after Livingstone had not been heard from for years. Stanley's greeting, 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?', became one of the most famous lines in the history of exploration.
- 1871 · from Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park
The Hayden survey explores Yellowstone
- 1871 · from The 1870s: the telephone, the phonograph and the light bulb
German Empire founded
- 1871 · from The Football Association is founded and football's rules are written
The first FA Cup