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Events from the year 1771 in Great Britain. Incumbents- Monarch – George III
- Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tory)
- Parliament – 13th
Events- 22 January – Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain.[1]
- 15 March – Society of Civil Engineers first meets (in London), the world's oldest engineering society.[2][3]
- 12 July – first voyage of James Cook (begun 1768): {{HMS|Endeavour}} anchors in The Downs, and Captain Cook goes ashore at Deal, Kent, following his global circumnavigation.
- 8 August – first recorded town cricket match played at Horsham; Horsham Cricket Club formed here soon after 1806.[4]
- 17 August – Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis.
- 30 September – Bath Assembly Rooms completed.
- 2 October – Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, brother to the King, marries a commoner, the widow Anne Horton, in Mayfair, precipitating the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
- 16 November – during the night:
- The River Tyne floods, destroying many bridges and killing several people; the replacement main bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne will not be completed until 1781.
- Solway Moss, on the Cumberland/Scotland border, bursts, flooding local farms and settlements.[5]
Undated- Industrial Revolution: Richard Arkwright begins to develop cotton mills at Cromford in the Derwent Valley of Derbyshire, one of the earliest factory complexes.[6]
- Harewood House, West Yorkshire, completed to the designs of John Carr and Robert Adam.
- Warren Hastings of the British East India Company becomes governor of Bengal in India.[7][8]
- St George's Circus intersection built in London.
- Edinburgh Society of Bowlers codifies the modern rules for bowls.
Publications- Encyclopædia Britannica completes publication.[1]
- Henry Mackenzie's novel The Man of Feeling.[1]
- Tobias Smollett's novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.[1]
- Peter Williams (1722–1796)'s Hymns on Various Subjects (includes "Prayer for Strength", the first English translation of the Welsh hymn "Cwm Rhondda").
- Arthur Young's The Farmer's Kalendar.
- Allegri's Miserere.
Births- 5 February – John Lingard, Roman Catholic priest (died 1851)
- 13 April – Richard Trevithick, Cornish inventor (died 1833)
- 3 June – Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (died 1845)
- 7 July – John Britton, antiquary and topographer (died 1857)
- 15 August – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (died 1832)
- 11 September – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer of West Africa (died 1806)
- 25 December – Dorothy Wordsworth, poet and diarist (died 1855)
Deaths- 5 January – John Russell, Duke of Bedford, statesman (born 1710)
- 21 May – Christopher Smart, poet (born 1722)
- 8 June – Lord Halifax, statesman (born 1716)
- 30 July – Thomas Gray, writer (born 1716)
- 17 September – Tobias Smollett, Scottish-born novelist (born 1721)
- 6 November – John Bevis, physician and astronomer (born 1695)
- 15 December – Benjamin Stillingfleet, botanist (born 1702)
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=978-0-304-35730-7|pages=326–327}}
2. ^{{cite book|last=Watson|first=Garth|title=The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers|publisher=Thomas Telford|year=1989|location=London|isbn=978-0-7277-1526-5}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Gwilym|title=From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street|publisher=Thomas Telford|year=1995|location=London|isbn=978-0-7277-2022-1}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Horsham Cricket Club History |url=http://www.horshamcc.com/history/default.aspx |publisher=Horsham Cricket Club |accessdate=2011-11-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226000855/http://www.horshamcc.com/history/default.aspx |archivedate=2012-02-26 |df= }}
5. ^{{cite journal|first1=Lindsey J.|last1=McEwen|first2=Charles W. J.|last2=Withers|year=1989|title=Historical records and geomorphological events: the 1771 'eruption' of Solway Moss|journal=Scottish Geographical Magazine|volume=105|issue=3|pages=149–157|doi=10.1080/14702548908554428}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml|title=BBC History British History Timeline|accessdate=2007-09-03| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml| archivedate= 9 September 2007 }}
7. ^{{cite journal|first=P. J.|last=Marshall|title=Hastings, Warren (1732–1818)|journal=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=September 2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12587|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12587|accessdate=2011-11-01}} {{ODNBsub}}
8. ^{{cite DNB|first=Henry George|last=Keene|authorlink=Henry George Keene (1826–1915)|wstitle=Hastings, Warren|volume=25}}
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