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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).

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Events of 1771

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1771

January - June

★ January 9 - Emperor Go-Momozono accedes to the throne of Japan, following his aunt's abdication.

★ 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.

★ 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.

July - December

★ 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 8 - First Recorded Town Cricket Match played at Horsham. Horsham Cricket Club formed here.

★ 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.

Undated

★ The territory of Baden-Baden is inherited by the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, forming Baden.

★ 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.

★ Construction of the Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex in Chengde, China is complete, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.

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 (died 1833)

★ April 18 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (died 1820)

★ April 27 - Jean Rapp, French general (died 1821)

★ June 5 - Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (died 1851)

★ August 15 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)

★ September 5 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general and statesman (died 1847)

★ September 23 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (died 1840)

★ October 9 - Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick (died 1815)

★ October 23 - Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (died 1813)

★ November 14 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (died 1802)
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Deaths

★ January 5 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (born 1710)

★ January 11 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (born 1704)

★ February 12 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (born 1710)

★ February 20 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (born 1678)

★ March 8 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born 1688)

★ May 21 - Christopher Smart, English poet (born 1722)

★ June 8 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (born 1716)

★ July 30 - Thomas Gray, English writer (born 1716)

★ September 17 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (born 1721)

★ November 6 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (born 1695)

★ November 13 - Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (born 1712)

★ December 6 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (born 1682)

★ December 23 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (born 1701)

★ December 26 - Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher (born 1715)

★ December 27 - Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (born 1695)
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