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1771
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place
)
by
Gorgonzola
Sun Oct 22 2000 at 3:01:49
Born in 1771:
Scottish
author
Sir Walter Scott
.
English
poet
James Montgomery
.
American
author
Charles Brockden Brown
.
Welsh
industrialist
Robert Owen
, believer in paternalistic treatment of workers.
Baptist
Theologian
John Gill
.
French physician
Xavier Bichat
, founder of
histology
.
Scottish explorer of Africa
Mungo Park
.
French mathematician
Joseph-Diaz Gergonne
.
English explorer
George Bass
.
German composer
Johann Baptist Cramer
.
Died in 1771:
English poet
Thomas Gray
.
French philosopher
Claude Adrien Helvetius
.
German composer
Johann Gottlieb Graun
.
English poet
Christopher Smart
.
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
. His illegitimate son
Henry Harford
inherits his estates (including
Maryland
) but the title goes extinct.
Events of 1771:
The first edition of the
Encyclopaedia Brittanica
is completed.
The
Marathas
re-occupy
Delhi
but their kingdom is a pale shadow of the
Mughal Empire
.
Luigi Galvani
hooks electrical wires up to a
dead frog
and flips the switch on. The legs twitch.
Japanese Empress
Go-Sakuramachi
is forced to abdicate in favor of her nephew,
Go-Momozono
, becoming Empress Regent.
Spain
cedes the
Falkland Islands
to
Great Britain
.
1770
-
1771
-
1772
1772
1770
Falkland Islands
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Cromford Mill
Go-Sakuramachi
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
Augusta, Maine
Encyclopædia Britannica
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Henry Harford
Charles Brockden Brown
Sir Walter Scott
Gingerbread People
Lake Athabasca
John Horne Tooke
Sherlock
mull
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