Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1768 1769 1770 – 1771 – 1772 1773 1774

1771 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1771 (MDCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1771 1.1 July–December 1.2 Undated 1.3 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1771

[edit] July–December

• July 17 – Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• August 8 – The first recorded town cricket match is played at Horsham; the Horsham Cricket Club is later formed.
• September 8 – In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.
• October 9 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland; Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed.
• November 16 – During the night the Tyne floods, destroying many bridges and killing several people; the main bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne is not completed until 1781.
• November 17 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.

[edit] Undated

• The territory of Baden-Baden is inherited by the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, forming Baden.
• Plague in Moscow kills 57,000.

• The trade monopoly with Iceland is transferred to the Danish crown.
• Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forces under Prince Vasily Dolgorukov occupy the Crimea.
• The North Carolina General Assembly passes an act establishing the town of Martinsborough, named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin, on the land of Richard Evans to serve as the county seat of Pitt County.
• Construction of the Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.

[edit] Ongoing events

• Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774.
• War of the Regulation (1764–1771).
• Captain James Cook's first voyage (1768–1771).

[edit] Births

1771 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1771 MDCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2524
Armenian calendar	1220 ԹՎ ՌՄԻ
Bahá'í calendar	-73 – -72
Berber calendar	2721
Buddhist calendar	2315
Burmese calendar	1133
Byzantine calendar	7279 – 7280
Chinese calendar	庚寅年十一月十六日 (4407/4467-11-16) — to — 辛卯年十一月廿六日 (4408/4468-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1487 – 1488
Ethiopian calendar	1763 – 1764
Hebrew calendar	5531 – 5532
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1826 – 1827
- Shaka Samvat	1693 – 1694
- Kali Yuga	4872 – 4873
Holocene calendar	11771
Iranian calendar	1149 – 1150
Islamic calendar	1184 – 1185
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 8 (明和8年)
Korean calendar	4104
Thai solar calendar	2314
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• April 13 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (d. 1833)
• April 18 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
• April 27 – Jean Rapp, French general (d. 1821)
• May 16 – Louis Henri Loison, French general (d. 1816)
• June 5 – Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
• August 15 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
• September 5 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general and statesman (d. 1847)
• September 23 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
• October 9 – Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1815)
• October 23 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
• November 14 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
• January 11 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
• February 12 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
• February 20 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
• March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
• May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
• June 8 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
• July 30 – Thomas Gray, English writer (b. 1716)
• September 17 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
• November 6 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
• November 13 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
• December 6 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
• December 23 – Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)
• December 26 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (b. 1715)
• December 27 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (b. 1695)

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