History
1771
General
Population: 872 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Matthias Claudius (poems), Klopstock (odes), Weiland (poetry), John William Flecher, William Robertson (history of America),
Piccini, Richard Price (national debt)
First official publication of Encyclopedia Britainnica
Art includes Houdon "Diderot", Benjamin West "The Death of Wolfe", Horace Walpole writes about painting
Music includes Haydn
- Science: Luigi Galvani discovers electrical nature of nerves
Priestly discovers oxygen
Carl Scheele discovers oxygen
- Deaths: Philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius, Poet Thomas Gray, Novelist Tobias Smollett, Adolphus Frederick of Sweden (died after extreme meal including 14 desserts), Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli,
Asia
Europe
- Great Britain: The Smeatonian Club for engineers founded in London names after John Smeaton
Assembly Room in Bath opened
Sir Richard Arkwright produces first spinning mill in England
- Poland: Russia and Prussia agree on partition
- Russia: Russia completes conquest of the Crimea
- Sweden: Adolphus Frederick dies – Gustavus III rules
Middle East
- Syria: Damascus taken by troops of Lai Bey
General
East
- New York: New York Hospital founded