1771

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1768 1769 1770 - 1771 - 1772 1773 1774\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1740s 1750s 1760s - 1770s - 1780s 1790s 1800s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1771 in art
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\n----\nList of state leaders in 1771
\nList of religious leaders in 1771
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n*January 22 - Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to England.\n* July 17 - Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.\n* September 8 - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California. \n*Discovery of Oxygen.\n*The territory of Baden-Baden is inherited by the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, forming Baden.\n*Emperor Go-Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan\n* Plague in Moscow - 57.000 dead

Births

\n*June 5 - Prince Ernest Augustus of Great Britain, fifth son of King George III, later King of Hanover\n*August 14 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet.\n*September 5 - Archduke Charles of Austria, third son of Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Tuscany, general and statesman\n*October 9 - Duke Frederick William of Brunswick\n*November 14 - Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist\n*Emperor Kokaku of Japan\n*Richard Trevithick, English inventor (d. 1833)

Deaths

\n*July 30 - Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (* 1716)\n* Augustus George of Baden-Baden \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n