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1771 Calendar
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1771 Historical Event(s)
- January 22, 1771 – Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to the United Kingdom.
- February 12, 1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- May 16, 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The “Regulators”, occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
- July 14, 1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
- July 17, 1771 – Bloody Falls Massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, travelling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
- October 9, 1771 – The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
- October 17, 1771 – Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15.
Who Were Born On 1771?
- March 15, 1771 – Robert Hett Chapman, American Presbyterian minister and president of the University of North Carolina (d. 1833)
- April 18, 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
- May 14, 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- June 1, 1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
- June 12, 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (d. 1870)
- June 19, 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
- June 20, 1771 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
- September 23, 1771 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
- September 25, 1771 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)
- December 26, 1771 – Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845)