1771

1771 (MDCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1771st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 771st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1771, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1771 by topic
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Countries
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Lists of leaders
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Birth and death categories
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Establishments and disestablishments categories
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Works category
  • Works
1771 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1771
MDCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita2524
Armenian calendar1220
ԹՎ ՌՄԻ
Assyrian calendar6521
Balinese saka calendar1692–1693
Bengali calendar1178
Berber calendar2721
British Regnal year11 Geo. 3 – 12 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2315
Burmese calendar1133
Byzantine calendar7279–7280
Chinese calendar庚寅年 (Metal Tiger)
4467 or 4407
    — to —
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4468 or 4408
Coptic calendar1487–1488
Discordian calendar2937
Ethiopian calendar1763–1764
Hebrew calendar5531–5532
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1827–1828
 - Shaka Samvat1692–1693
 - Kali Yuga4871–4872
Holocene calendar11771
Igbo calendar771–772
Iranian calendar1149–1150
Islamic calendar1184–1185
Japanese calendarMeiwa 8
(明和８年)
Javanese calendar1696–1697
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4104
Minguo calendar141 before ROC
民前141年
Nanakshahi calendar303
Thai solar calendar2313–2314
Tibetan calendar阳金虎年
(male Iron-Tiger)
1897 or 1516 or 744
    — to —
阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1898 or 1517 or 745
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September 15–17:Plague Riot in Moscow

Events

January– March
  • January 5 – The Great Kalmyk (Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule.
  • January 9 – Emperor Go-Momozono accedes to the throne of Japan, following his aunt's abdication.
  • February 12 – Upon the death of Adolf Frederick, he is succeeded as King of Sweden by his son Gustav III. At the time, however, Gustav is unaware of this, since he is abroad in Paris. The news of his father's death reaches him about a month later.
  • 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.
  • March 15 – The Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers first meets in London, the world's oldest engineering society.[1][2]

April–June
  • April 4 – The first quarantines are started in Moscow and Saint Petersburg to fight the bubonic plague. Over the next 12 months, more than 52,000 people die from the plague in Moscow alone.[3]
  • May – Three battles of Sarbakusa: An alliance of three of the most powerful aristocrats of Ethiopia (Goshu of Amhara, Wand Bewossen, and Fasil of Damot) defeats Ras Mikael Sehul and Emperor Tekle Haymanot I, taking control of Ethiopia.
  • May 11 – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon marches his military out of Hillsborough, to come to the aid of General Hugh Waddell's beleaguered forces. Tryon's army stops at Alamance Creek, 5 miles (8.0 km) away from the Regulator army.
  • May 16 – War of the Regulation – Battle of Alamance: 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.
  • May 23 – Battle of Lanckorona: A force of 4,000 Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat a Polish formation of 1,300 men.
  • June 11 — The Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights meets in the London Tavern and changes its platform from to a comprehensive program for British parliamentary reform in advance of the next election.[4]

July–September
  • July 12 – The first voyage of James Cook around the world ends as HMS Endeavour returns to England after almost three years.
  • July 13 – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russian forces occupy the Crimea,[5] under Prince Vasily Dolgorukov.
  • 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, England.[6]
  • September 8 – In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission Vieja, later called, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, in what is now San Gabriel, California.
  • September 15–17 – The Moscow plague riot results from an outbreak of bubonic plague, which kills 57,000.

October–December
  • October 9 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks off the coast of Finland; Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed.
  • October 17 – The opera Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15, premieres in Milan.
  • November 16 – During the night the River Tyne, England, floods, destroying many bridges and killing several people; the replacement main bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne will not be completed until 1781.
  • December 3 – The cause of action in Sommersett's Case, which eventually leads to the end of slavery in Great Britain, begins when escaped slave James Sommersett is found imprisoned on the ship Ann and Mary.[7]
  • December 31 – Men, women and children of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes begin a 23-day encampment at Mobile, part of the British colony of West Florida, at the invitation of British Southern Indian superintendent John Stuart, as their leaders negotiate a treaty.[8]

Date unknown
  • The territory of Baden-Baden is inherited by Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach, reunifying the territories of Baden.
  • The trade monopoly with Iceland is transferred to the Danish crown.
  • 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, which will serve as the seat of Pitt County.
  • Construction of the Putuo Zongcheng Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
  • Limoges porcelain manufacture is established in France.
  • Slovene literature: István Küzmics, the Hungarian Slovene writer and evangelical pastor, publishes (in Halle) the Nouvi Zákon, a translation of the New Testament into the Prekmurje Slovene language, with discrete South Slavic artwork.

Births
Robert Owen
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover

Deaths
Rev. Samuel Phillips
Christopher Smart
  • May 21 – Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
  • May 27 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, English philanthropist (b. 1711)[11]
  • June 5 – Samuel Phillips (reverend), colonial American minister, 1st Pastor of the South Church in Andover (b. 1690)
  • June 8 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
  • July 14 – Chen Hongmou, Chinese scholar and philosopher (b. 1696)
  • July 22 – William Whitmore (British Army officer), British general (b. 1714)
  • July 30 – Thomas Gray, English writer (b. 1716)
  • September 13 – John Gambold, British bishop (b. 1711)
  • September 17 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)[12]
  • October 22 – Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1716)
  • November 4 – Charles Lucas (politician), Irish apothecary (b. 1713)
  • November 6 – John Bevis, English physician, astronomer (b. 1695)
  • November 13 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor (b. 1712)
Giovanni Battista Morgagni

References
  1. Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 0-7277-1526-7.
  2. Roberts, Gwilym (1995). From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 0-7277-2022-8.
  3. John T. Alexander, Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster (Oxford University Press, 2002) p150, p257
  4. Ian R. Christie, Myth and Reality in Late-eighteenth-century British Politics: And Other Papers (University of California Press, 1970) pp244-245
  5. "Ukraine". World Statesmen. 2000. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  6. "Horsham Cricket Club History". Horsham Cricket Club. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2011.
  7. Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (NYU Press, 2014) p210
  8. Richmond F. Brown, Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century (University of Nebraska Press, 2007) pp59-62
  9. Edinburgh University Library (October 22, 2004). "Homes of Sir Walter Scott". Edinburgh University Library. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  10. Park, Mungo (2002). Travels in the interior districts of Africa. Ware: Wordsworth. p. viii. ISBN 9781840226010.
  11. Landgraf, Annette (2009). The Cambridge Handel encyclopedia. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 586. ISBN 9780521881920.
  12. MacPherson, Hamish (March 14, 2021). "Back in the Day - Pioneering novelist who turned to writing after falling on hard times". The National - Seven Days. p. 11. Retrieved March 14, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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