1771
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1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Contents
Events
- Discovery of Oxygen as a chemical element.
- The territory of Baden-Baden is inherited by the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, forming Baden.
- Emperor Go-Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan
- Plague in Moscow - 57,000 dead
- The trade monopoly with Iceland is transferred to the Danish crown.
- Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russian forced 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.
January
- January 17 - Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark
February
March
- March - War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon raises a militia to put down the long running uprising of backcountry militias against North Carolina's colonial government.
- March 12 - The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County (named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon) from portions of Cumberland, Johnston and Orange counties. Bloomsbury (later known as Wake Courthouse) is made the informal county seat.
April
May
- May 11 - War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon marches his militia out of Hillsborough to come to the aid of General Hugh Waddell's beleaguered forces. Tryon's army stops at Alamance Creek, five miles away from the Regulator army.
- May 16 - War of the Regulation: The Battle of Alamance commences after Regulators reject an appeal by Governor Tryon to peacefully disperse. Governor Tryon's forces crush the rebellion, causing many Regulators to move to frontier areas outside of North Carolina.
June
July
- July 17 - Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
August
September
- September 8 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.
October
- October 9 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland. Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed.
November
- 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
December
Ongoing events
- Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774
- War of the Regulation (1764-1771)
- Captain James Cook's first voyage (1768-1771)
Births
- 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)
- June 5 - Prince Ernest Augustus of Great Britain, King of Hanover (d. 1851)
- August 14 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (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. U momma)
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, French engineer (b. 1695)
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