1771
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[edit] Events
- January 17 - Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark
- 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.
- 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
- Discovery of Oxygen.
- 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.
[edit] 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)
