Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1668 1669 1670 – 1671 – 1672 1673 1674

1671 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1671 (MDCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1671 1.1 July–December 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 In fiction

[edit] Events of 1671

• April – Battle of Saraighat: The Ahom general Lachit Borphukan defeats the Mughal forces on the outskirts of present day Guwahati, of then sovereign Assam.
• May 9 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
• June 22 – The Ottoman Empire declares war on Poland.

[edit] July–December

• December – The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded at Newport, Rhode Island.

[edit] Births

1671 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1671 MDCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2424
Armenian calendar	1120 ԹՎ ՌՃԻ
Bahá'í calendar	-173 – -172
Bengali calendar	1078
Berber calendar	2621
Buddhist calendar	2215
Burmese calendar	1033
Byzantine calendar	7179 – 7180
Chinese calendar	庚戌年十一月廿一日 (4307/4367-11-21) — to — 辛亥年十二月初一日 (4308/4368-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1387 – 1388
Ethiopian calendar	1663 – 1664
Hebrew calendar	5431 – 5432
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1726 – 1727
- Shaka Samvat	1593 – 1594
- Kali Yuga	4772 – 4773
Holocene calendar	11671
Iranian calendar	1049 – 1050
Islamic calendar	1081 – 1082
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 10 (寛文10年)
Korean calendar	4004
Thai solar calendar	2214
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• January 11 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (d. 1745)
• February 26 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)
• March 7 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
• April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
• April 21 – John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
• May 24 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
• June 8 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
• June 11 – Colley Cibber, English poet (d. 1757)
• July 14 – Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
• October 1 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
• October 11 – King Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1730)
• Date unknown
  • Giacomo Antonio Fancelli, Italian sculptor (d.1619)

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (b. 1643)
• April 30 – Petar Zrinski, Croatian Ban (title) and nobleman (b. 1621)
• April 30 – Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian poet and nobleman (b. 1643)
• March 31 – Anne Hyde, wife of the future James II of England (b. 1637)
• May 5 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
• June 25 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
• July 14 – Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
• October 26 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
• November 12 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
• December 28 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611)

[edit] In fiction

• On Heroes, Hiro Nakamura is transported back to this year at the end of season 1, and part of season 2, in Japan.