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[[File:Chumbunt.png|thumb|[[September 15]]–[[September 17|17]]:[[Plague Riot]] in Moscow]]
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== Events ==
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=== January– March ===
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* [[January 5]] – The Great [[Kalmyk people|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.
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* [[January 9]] – [[Emperor Go-Momozono]] accedes to the throne of [[Tokugawa shogunate|Japan]], following his aunt's abdication.
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* [[February 12]] – Upon the death of [[Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden|Adolf Frederick]], he is succeeded as King of [[Sweden]] by his son [[Gustav III of Sweden|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.
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* [[March]] – [[War of the Regulation]]: [[Royal Colony of North Carolina|North Carolina]] Governor [[William Tryon]] raises a militia, to put down the long-running uprising of backcountry militias against North Carolina's colonial government.
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* [[March 12]] – The [[North Carolina General Assembly]] establishes [[Wake County, North Carolina|Wake County]] (named for [[Margaret Wake (North Carolina)|Margaret Wake]], the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor [[William Tryon]]) from portions of [[Cumberland County, North Carolina|Cumberland]], [[Johnston County, North Carolina|Johnston]] and [[Orange County, North Carolina|Orange]] counties.  Bloomsbury (later known as Wake Courthouse) is made the informal county seat.
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* [[March 15]] &ndash; The [[Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers]] first meets in London, the world's oldest engineering society.<ref>Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. London: Thomas Telford.</ref><ref>Roberts, Gwilym (1995). From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street. London: Thomas Telford.</ref>
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=== April&ndash;June ===
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* [[April 4]] &ndash; 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.<ref>John T. Alexander, ''Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster'' (Oxford University Press, 2002) p150, p257</ref>
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* [[May]] &ndash; [[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 (title)|Ras]]'' [[Mikael Sehul]] and Emperor [[Tekle Haymanot I]], taking control of Ethiopia.
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* [[May 11]] &ndash; War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon marches his military out of [[Hillsborough, North Carolina|Hillsborough]], to come to the aid of General Hugh Waddell's beleaguered forces.  Tryon's army stops at Alamance Creek, {{convert|5|mi|km}} away from the Regulator army.
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* [[May 16]] &ndash; War of the Regulation &ndash; [[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.
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* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lanckorona]]: A force of 4,000 [[Russian Empire|Russia]]ns under [[Alexander Suvorov]] defeat a [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish]] formation of 1,300 men.
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* [[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.<ref>Ian R. Christie, ''Myth and Reality in Late-eighteenth-century British Politics: And Other Papers'' (University of California Press, 1970) pp244-245</ref>
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=== July&ndash;September ===
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* [[July 12]] &ndash; The [[first voyage of James Cook]] around the world ends as [[HMS Endeavour|HMS ''Endeavour'']] returns to England after almost three years.
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* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–74)]]: Russian forces occupy the [[Crimea]],<ref>http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Ukraine.html</ref> under Prince Vasily Dolgorukov.
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* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Bloody Falls massacre]]: [[Chipewyan]] chief [[Matonabbee]], traveling as the guide to [[Samuel Hearne]] on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting [[Inuit]].
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* [[August 8]] &ndash; The first recorded town cricket match is played, at [[Horsham]], England.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120226000855/http://www.horshamcc.com/history/default.aspx</ref>
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* [[September 8]] &ndash; In [[California]], Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found [[Mission Vieja]], later called, [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel]], in what is now [[San Gabriel, California]].
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* [[September 15]]&ndash;[[September 17|17]] &ndash; The [[Moscow plague riot of 1771|Moscow plague riot]] results from an outbreak of [[bubonic plague]], which kills 57,000.
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=== October&ndash;December ===
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* [[October 9]] &ndash; The [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] merchant ship ''[[Vrouw Maria]]'' sinks off the coast of Finland; Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed.
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* [[October 17]] &ndash; The opera ''[[Ascanio in Alba]]'' by [[Wolfgang Mozart]], age 15, premieres in [[Milan]].
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* [[November 16]] &ndash; 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]].
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* [[December 3]] &ndash; 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''.<ref>Gerald Horne, ''The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America'' (NYU Press, 2014) p210</ref>
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* [[December 31]] &ndash; Men, women and children of the [[Choctaw]] and [[Chickasaw]] tribes begin a 23-day encampment at [[Mobile, Alabama|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.<ref>Richmond F. Brown, ''Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2007) pp59-62</ref>
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=== Date unknown ===
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* The territory of [[Baden-Baden]] is inherited by [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden|Charles Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach]], [[Margraviate of Baden#Reunification|reunifying the territories of Baden]].
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* The trade monopoly with [[Iceland]] is transferred to the Danish crown.
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* The North Carolina General Assembly passes an act establishing the town of [[Martinsborough, North Carolina|Martinsborough]], named for Royal Governor [[Josiah Martin]], on the land of Richard Evans, which will serve as the [[county seat|seat]] of [[Pitt County, North Carolina|Pitt County]].
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* Construction of the [[Putuo Zongcheng Temple]] complex in [[Chengde]], China is completed during the reign of the [[Qianlong Emperor]].
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* [[Limoges porcelain]] manufacture is established in France.
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* [[Slovene literature]]: [[István Küzmics]], the [[Hungarian Slovenes|Hungarian Slovene]] writer and [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] pastor, publishes (in [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]) the ''[[Nouvi Zákon]]'', a translation of the [[New Testament]] into the [[Prekmurje Slovene]] language, with discrete [[South Slavs|South Slavic]] artwork.
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== Births ==
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* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Hanne Tott]], Danish circus artist, circus manager (d. [[1826]])
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* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Antoine-Jean Gros]], French painter (d. [[1835]])
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* [[March 20]] &ndash; [[Heinrich Clauren]], German author (d. [[1854]])
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* [[March 25]] &ndash; [[Germanos III of Old Patras]], Greek Metropolitan Bishop of [[Patras]] (d. [[1826]])
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* [[April 3]] – [[Hans Nielsen Hauge]], Norwegian revivalist, entrepreneur (d. [[1824]])
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* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Richard Trevithick]], English inventor (d. [[1833]])
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* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1820]])
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* [[April 27]] &ndash; [[Jean Rapp]], French general (d. [[1821]])
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* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Cajsa Wahllund]], Finnish restaurateur (d. [[1843]])
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* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Laskarina Bouboulina]], Greek independence heroine (d. [[1825]])
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[[File:Portrait of Robert Owen.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Owen]]]]
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* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Robert Owen]], Welsh social reformer (d. [[1858]])
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* [[May 16]] &ndash; [[Louis Henri Loison]], French general (d. [[1816]])
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[[File:Ernest Augustus I of Hanover.PNG|thumb|right|110px|[[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]]]]
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* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]] (d. [[1851]])
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* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Éleuthère Irénée du Pont]], French-American chemist, industrialist (d. [[1834]])
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* [[August 15]] &ndash; Sir [[Walter Scott]], [[List of Scottish novelists|Scottish novelist]], poet (d. [[1832]])
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* [[September 5]] &ndash; [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles of Austria]], Austrian general, statesman (d. [[1847]])
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* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Mungo Park (explorer)|Mungo Park]], Scottish explorer (d. [[1806]])
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* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Johann August Apel]], German writer, jurist (d. [[1816]])
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* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Emperor Kōkaku]] of Japan (d. [[1840]])
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* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]] (d. [[1815]])
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* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Jean-Andoche Junot]], French general (d. [[1813]])
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* [[November 14]] &ndash; [[Xavier Bichat]], French anatomist and pathologist (d. [[1802]])
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* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Regina von Siebold]], German physician and [[obstetrician]] (d. [[1849]])
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* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[William Johnson (judge)|William Johnson]], [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (d. [[1834]])
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* Unknown &ndash; [[William Lloyd (Methodist minister)|William Lloyd]], Welsh Anglican priest turned schoolteacher and Methodist preacher (d. [[1841]])
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== Deaths ==
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[[File:RevSamuelPhillips2.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Samuel Phillips (reverend)|Rev. Samuel Phillips]]]]
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* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford]], British statesman (b. [[1710]])
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* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens]], French writer (b. [[1704]])
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* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Jean Charles de Saint-Nectaire]], French general (b. [[1685]])
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* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden]] (b. [[1710]])
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* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]], French geophysicist (b. [[1678]])
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* [[March 8]] &ndash; [[Louis August le Clerc]], French-born sculptor (b. [[1688]])
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[[File:Christopher Smart.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Christopher Smart]]]]
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* [[May 21]] &ndash; [[Christopher Smart]], English poet (b. [[1722]])
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* [[May 27]] &ndash; [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury]], England (b. [[1711]])
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* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Samuel Phillips (reverend)]], colonial American minister, 1st Pastor of the [[South Church, Andover, Massachusetts|South Church]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts|Andover]] (b. [[1690]])
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* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax]], English statesman (b. [[1716]])
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* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Chen Hongmou]], Chinese scholar and philosopher (b. [[1696]])
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* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[William Whitmore (British Army officer)]], British general (b. [[1714]])
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* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Thomas Gray]], English writer (b. [[1716]])
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* [[September 13]] &ndash; [[John Gambold]], British bishop (b. [[1711]])
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* [[September 17]] &ndash; [[Tobias Smollett]], Scottish novelist (b. [[1721]])
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* [[October 22]] &ndash; [[Charles-Nicolas d'Oultremont]], Roman Catholic bishop (b. [[1716]])
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* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Charles Lucas (politician)]], Irish apothecary (b. [[1713]])
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* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[John Bevis]], English physician, astronomer (b. [[1695]])
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* [[November 13]] &ndash; [[Konrad Ernst Ackermann]], German actor (b. [[1712]])
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[[File:Giambattista morgagni.gif|thumb|right|110px|[[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]]]]
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* [[December 6]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]], Italian anatomist (b. [[1682]])
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* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Marie-Marguerite d'Youville]], Canadian saint (b. [[1701]])
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* [[December 26]] &ndash; [[Claude Adrien Helvétius]], French philosopher (b. [[1715]])
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* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Henri Pitot]], Italian-born French engineer (b. [[1695]])
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Latest revision as of 07:14, 26 February 2021

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Year 1771

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July–September

October–December

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References

  1. Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. London: Thomas Telford.
  2. Roberts, Gwilym (1995). From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street. London: Thomas Telford.
  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. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Ukraine.html
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20120226000855/http://www.horshamcc.com/history/default.aspx
  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