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1771

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Events

= January– March =

= April–June =

  • 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.John T. Alexander, Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and Urban Disaster (Oxford University Press, 2002) p150, p257
  • 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, {{convert|5|mi|km}} away from the Regulator army.
  • May 16 – War of the Regulation – Battle of Alamance: Regulators reject an appeal by Governor Tryon to disperse peacefully. 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.Ian R. Christie, Myth and Reality in Late-eighteenth-century British Politics: And Other Papers (University of California Press, 1970) pp244-245

= July–September =

= October–December =

  • 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 in the north of 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.Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America (NYU Press, 2014) p210
  • 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.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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Births

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Deaths

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References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |title=Blair's Chronological Tables |author1=John Blair |author-link=John Blair (priest) |author2=J. Willoughby Rosse|location= London |publisher=H.G. Bohn |year=1856 |via=Hathi Trust |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=685 |chapter=1771 |hdl=2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=685 }}

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