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September 15
–
17
:
Plague Riot
in Moscow
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.
Calendar year
Events
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January– March
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- 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.
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April–June
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- April 4
– The first quarantines are started in
Moscow
and
Saint Petersburg
to fight the
bubonic plague epidemic
. 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 II
, 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 to a comprehensive program for British parliamentary reform in advance of the next election.
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July–September
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- 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 Arcangel
, 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
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- 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 3
– Siamese conquest of Ha Tien ends the
Siamese civil war of 1767-71
.
- 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 Somerset 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
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- 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
:
Istvan Kuzmics
, the
Hungarian Slovene
writer and
evangelical
pastor, publishes (in
Halle
) the
Nouvi Zakon
, a translation of the
New Testament
into the
Prekmurje Slovene
language, with discrete
South Slavic
artwork.
Births
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- February 14
–
Hanne Tott
, Danish circus artist, circus manager (d.
1826
)
- March 16
–
Antoine-Jean Gros
, French painter (d.
1835
)
- March 20
–
Heinrich Clauren
, German author (d.
1854
)
- March 25
–
Germanos III of Old Patras
, Greek Metropolitan Bishop of
Patras
(d.
1826
)
- April 3
?
Hans Nielsen Hauge
, Norwegian revivalist, entrepreneur (d.
1824
)
- April 13
–
Richard Trevithick
, English inventor (d.
1833
)
- April 18
–
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
, Austrian field marshal (d.
1820
)
- April 27
–
Jean Rapp
, French general (d.
1821
)
- May 1
–
Cajsa Wahllund
, Finnish restaurateur (d.
1843
)
- May 11
–
Laskarina Bouboulina
, Greek independence heroine (d.
1825
)
Robert Owen
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
- June 5
–
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover
(d.
1851
)
- June 24
–
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont
, French-American chemist, industrialist (d.
1834
)
- August 15
– Sir
Walter Scott
,
Scottish novelist
, poet (d.
1832
)
[9]
- September 5
–
Archduke Charles of Austria
, Austrian general, statesman (d.
1847
)
- September 11
–
Mungo Park
, Scottish explorer (d.
1806
)
[10]
- September 17
–
Johann August Apel
, German writer, jurist (d.
1816
)
- September 23
–
Emperor K?kaku
of Japan (d.
1840
)
- October 9
–
Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel
(d.
1815
)
- October 23
–
Jean-Andoche Junot
, French general (d.
1813
)
- November 14
–
Xavier Bichat
, French anatomist and pathologist (d.
1802
)
- December 14
–
Regina von Siebold
, German physician and
obstetrician
(d.
1849
)
- December 27
–
William Johnson
,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
(d.
1834
)
- Unknown –
William Lloyd
, Welsh Anglican priest turned schoolteacher and Methodist preacher (d.
1841
)
Deaths
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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
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Watson, Garth (1989).
The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers
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ISBN
0-7277-1526-7
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From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street
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ISBN
0-7277-2022-8
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John T. Alexander,
Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster
(Oxford University Press, 2002) p150, p257
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Ian R. Christie,
Myth and Reality in Late-eighteenth-century British Politics: And Other Papers
(University of California Press, 1970) pp244-245
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"Ukraine"
.
World Statesmen
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. Retrieved
November 1,
2011
.
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"Horsham Cricket Club History"
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the original
on February 26, 2012
. Retrieved
November 1,
2011
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Gerald Horne,
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
(NYU Press, 2014) p210
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Richmond F. Brown,
Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century
(University of Nebraska Press, 2007) pp59-62
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Edinburgh University Library (October 22, 2004).
"Homes of Sir Walter Scott"
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October 21,
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Park, Mungo (2002).
Travels in the interior districts of Africa
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Landgraf, Annette (2009).
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