1771

1771 (MDCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1771st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 771st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1771, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1768 1769 1770 – 1771 – 1772 1773 1774

1771 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1771 MDCCLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2524
Armenian calendar	1220 ԹՎ ՌՄԻ
Assyrian calendar	6521
Balinese saka calendar	1692–1693
Bengali calendar	1178
Berber calendar	2721
British Regnal year	11 Geo. 3 – 12 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2315
Burmese calendar	1133
Byzantine calendar	7279–7280
Chinese calendar	庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4467 or 4407     — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4468 or 4408
Coptic calendar	1487–1488
Discordian calendar	2937
Ethiopian calendar	1763–1764
Hebrew calendar	5531–5532
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1827–1828
- Shaka Samvat	1692–1693
- Kali Yuga	4871–4872
Holocene calendar	11771
Igbo calendar	771–772
Iranian calendar	1149–1150
Islamic calendar	1184–1185
Japanese calendar	Meiwa 8 (明和８年)
Javanese calendar	1696–1697
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4104
Minguo calendar	141 before ROC 民前141年
Nanakshahi calendar	303
Thai solar calendar	2313–2314
Tibetan calendar	阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 1897 or 1516 or 744     — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 1898 or 1517 or 745

Events

• January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen 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 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 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.
• Emperor Go-Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan
• Plague in Moscow – 57,000 dead
• The trade monopoly with Iceland is transferred to the 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 – 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)
• October 23 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (d. 1813)
• November 14 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (d. U momma)