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What Happened In Year 1771?

• 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 In The Year 1771?

• March 15, 1771 – Robert Hett Chapman, American Presbyterian minister and president of the University of North Carolina (d. 1833)
• April 13, 1771 – Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833)
• April 18, 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1820)
• May 11, 1771 – Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek naval commander in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1825)
• May 14, 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
• June 1, 1771 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (d. 1839)
• June 5, 1771 – Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (d. 1851)
• June 19, 1771 – Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
• June 20, 1771 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
• July 19, 1771 – Thomas Talbot, Irish-born Canadian administrator (d. 1853)
• August 15, 1771 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
• August 22, 1771 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831)
• September 11, 1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of Africa (d. 1806)
• September 17, 1771 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
• September 23, 1771 – Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
• September 25, 1771 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky, Russian general (d. 1829)
• October 1, 1771 – Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
• 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)

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