What is 1771?
{{Year nav|1771}} {{Year in various calendars|1771}} {{Year article header|1771}} == Events == * [[January 17]] – [[Johann Friedrich Struensee]] and Queen [[Caroline Matilda of Wales|Caroline Matilda]] are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from [[Denmark]] * [[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]]. * [[September 8]] – In [[California]], Fathers [[Pedro Cambon]] and [[Angel Somera]] found [[Mission San Gabriel Arcangel]] in what is now [[San Gabriel, California]]. * [[October 9]] – The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] merchant ship [[Vrouw Maria]] sinks near the coast of [[Finland]]. Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed. * [[November 16]] – During the night the [[River Tyne, England|Tyne]] floods, destroying many bridges and killing several people; the main bridge at [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] is not completed until [[1781]] *Discovery of [[Oxygen]]. *The territory of [[Baden-Baden]] is inherited by the [[Margrave]] of [[Baden-Durlach]], forming [[Baden, Germany|Baden]]. *[[Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan|Emperor Go-Momozono]] ascends to the throne of [[Japan]] * [[Black Death|Plague]] in [[Moscow]] – 57,000 dead * The trade monopoly with [[Iceland]] is transferred to the [[Denmark|Danish]] crown. == Births == *[[April 13]] – [[Richard Trevithick]], English inventor (d. [[1833]]) *[[April 18]] – [[Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1820]]) *[[April 27]] – [[Jean Rapp]], French general (d. [[1821]]) *[[June 5]] – [[Ernest I of Hanover|Prince Ernest Augustus of Great Britain]], King of Hanover (d. [[1851]]) *[[August 14]] – Sir [[Walter Scott]], Scottish writer (d. [[1832]]) *[[September 5]] – [[Archduke Charles of Austria]], Austrian general and statesman (d. [[1847]]) *[[September 23]] – [[Emperor Kokaku of Japan]] (d. [[1840]]) *[[October 9]] – [[Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick]] (d. [[1815]]) *[[Octo