Editing 1871 (section)

=== July–September ===
* [[July 13]] – The first cat show is held at the [[The Crystal Palace|Crystal Palace]] of [[London]].
* [[July 20]]
** [[British Columbia]] joins the [[Canadian Confederation|confederation]] of [[Canada]].
** [[C. W. Alcock]] proposes that "a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with [[The Football Association|the Association]]", giving birth to the [[FA Cup]] for [[Association football]] in England.
* [[July 21]]–[[August 26]] – The first ever photographs of [[Yellowstone National Park]] region are taken by photographer [[William Henry Jackson]], during the [[Hayden Geological Survey of 1871]].
* [[July 22]] – The foundation stone of the first [[Tay Bridge]] is laid;<ref>''BBC History'', July 2011, p12</ref> the bridge collapses as a train crosses in a storm eight years later.
* [[July 28]] – The ''Annie'' becomes the first boat ever launched on [[Yellowstone Lake]], in the Yellowstone National Park region.
* [[August 7]] – Banco de Concepcion, predecessor of [[Itaú Unibanco]], a major [[financial services]] provider in [[South America]], is founded in [[Chile]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
* [[August 9]] – One of the few known [[major hurricane]]s to strike [[Hawaii]] causes significant damage on the islands of [[Hawaii (island)|Hawaii]] and [[Maui]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Businger |first1=Steven |last2=Nogelmeier |first2=M. Puakea |last3=Chinn |first3=Pauline W. U. |last4=Schroeder |first4=Thomas |s2cid=52996353 |title=Hurricane with a History: Hawaiian Newspapers Illuminate an 1871 Storm |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |date=1 February 2018 |volume=99 |issue=1 |pages=137–147 |doi=10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0333.1 |bibcode=2018BAMS...99..137B|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/64849 }}</ref>
* [[August 29]] – The [[abolition of the han system]] is carried out in Japan.
* [[August 31]] – [[Adolphe Thiers]] becomes President of the French Republic.
* [[September 2]] – [[Whaling disaster of 1871]]: The ''Comet'', a [[brig]] used by whalers, becomes the first of 33 ships to be crushed in the Arctic ice by an early freeze.<ref>{{cite book |first=Edward |last=Joesting |title=Kauai: The Separate Kingdom |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |year=1988 |page=171}}</ref> Remarkably, all 1,219 people on the abandoned ships are rescued without a single loss of life.<ref>{{cite book |first=John |last=Taliaferro |title=In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, a Murder, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898 |publisher=PublicAffairs |year=2007 |page=179}}</ref>
* [[September 3]] – New York City residents, tired of the corruption of the [[Tammany Hall]] political machine and "Boss" [[William M. Tweed]], its "Grand Sachem", meet to form the '[[Committee of Seventy (New York City)|Committee of Seventy]]' to reform local politics.<ref name="Snay">{{cite book |first=Mitchell |last=Snay |title=Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2011 |page=172}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] – [[West Chester University]] ([[List of colleges and universities in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]) is charted as West Chester Normal School <ref>{{cite web |title=HISTORY AND HERITAGE AT 150 YEARS: WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY PREPARES FOR ITS SESQUICENTENNIAL |url=https://www.wcupa.edu/communications/newsroom/2020/12.2teaser150.aspx#:~:text=Although%20its%20roots%20date%20back,first%20classes%20in%20September%201871. |website=wcupa.edu |publisher=WCUPA |access-date=11 October 2023}}</ref>