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?
May 14, 1771
– Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
June 5, 1771
– Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
June 12, 1771
– Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (d. 1870)
June 20, 1771
– Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
August 15, 1771
– Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
September 11, 1771
– Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of Africa (d. 1806)
October 23, 1771
– Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
November 14, 1771
– Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. 1802)
December 25, 1771
– Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (d. 1855)