* 1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

* 1599 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( d. 1671 )

* 1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer ( d. 1671 )

* 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist ( d. 1729 )

* 1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, French composer ( d. 1744 )

* 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )

* 1713 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian ( d. 1704 )

* 1671 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader ( d. 1745 )

* 1742 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer ( d. 1751 )

* 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general ( d. 1671 )

* 1671 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( b. 1599 )

* 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

* 1745 – François Marie de Broglie, Duke of Broglie, French military leader ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general ( b. 1612 )

* 1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Frederick IV of Denmark ( d. 1730 )

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

* Sébastien Bourdon ( 1616 – 1671 ), a French Protestant painter forced to flee Italy

John Dutton ’ s successors as governor, Robert Stringer ( 1661 – 1670 ) and Richard Coney ( 1671 – 1672 ), repeatedly warned the Company of unrest amongst the inhabitants, Coney complaining the inhabitants were drunks and ne ’ er-do-wells.

* Christian Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1671 – 1703 )

In 1673, Thomas Shadwell's Psyche, patterned on the 1671 ' comédie-ballet ' of the same name produced by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

* March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( b. 1671 )

* Jean-Baptiste van Mour ( 1671 – 1731 )

But in 1671 he contributed to the singular miscellany of Psyché, in which Pierre Corneille and Molière also had a hand, and which was set to the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ( 6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741 ) was a French poet.

On the other hand, the foreign minister, Hugues de Lionne ( 1611 – 1671 ), and the finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 ), both would have preferred to see a peace treaty signed quickly, as the costs of continuing the war were incalculable ( so far it had cost most than 18 million livres ), and the international conditions did not make a victory seem likely.

In 1673, Thomas Shadwell's Psyche, patterned on the 1671 ' comédie-ballet ' of the same name produced by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

In the fine arts, the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (" Academy of Painting and Sculpture ") was founded by Cardinal Mazarin in 1648 and was soon followed by a number of other officially instituted academies: the Académie royale de danse (" Royal Academy of Dance ") in 1661 ; the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals ") in 1663 the Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres (" Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Literature " or " Royal Academy of Humanities ") in 1716 ; the Académie royale des sciences (" Royal Academy of Sciences ") in 1666 ; the Académie d ' Opéra (" Academy of Opera ") in 1669 the Académie royale de musique (" Royal Academy of Music ") in 1672 and the Académie de musique in 1791 ; and the Académie royale d ' architecture (" Royal Academy of Architecture ") founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1671.

* March 17-Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, poet ( born 1671 )

* February 2 – Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver ( d. 1671 )

* May 22 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader ( b. 1671 )

If the French had abandoned the island in 1671 ( as the British claimed ), then under the 1686 Treaty, St. Croix would be peaceably in British possession.

During his expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana in 1671, Jean Richer found that a pendulum clock was minutes per day slower at Cayenne than at Paris.

In 1671, plug bayonets were issued to the French regiment of fusiliers then raised.

The first person to discover that gravity varied over the Earth's surface was French scientist Jean Richer, who in 1671 was sent on an expedition to Cayenne, French Guiana by the French Académie des Sciences, assigned the task of making measurements with a pendulum clock.

Charles had hoped that an attack on the Republic could have begun in 1671, but it had to be delayed for a year because the French needed first to establish secure diplomatic relations with two key German principilaties: the Bishopric of Münster and the Archbishopric of Cologne.

" A definite precursor to the dory type was the early French bateau type, a flat bottom boat with straight sides used as early as 1671 on the Saint Lawrence River.

French explorer and priest Jacques Marquette founded the St. Ignace Mission on this site in 1671 and was buried there after his death.

In 1671 French Jesuit explorer Père Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River before entering Lake Michigan.

" Several reprints of the book have been issued since the author's death ; and in 1671 a French translation by James Dymocke appeared with the title of Le Vice ridicule.

François-Marie de Broglie, 1er duc de Broglie ( 11 January 1671 – 22 May 1745 ) was a French military leader.

He also published A True Relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen ( 1671 ), an account of Holles's intercession on their behalf and of his dispute with Lord Chief Justice Keeling ; and he left Memoirs, written in exile in 1649, and dedicated " to the unparalleled Couple, Mr Oliver St John ... and Mr Oliver Cromwell ..." published in 1699 and reprinted in Baron Maseres's Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars, I.

both were founded in 1639 by French nun Marie de l ' Incarnation ( 1599 – 1672 ) alongside laywoman Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie ( 1603 – 1671 ) and are the first Canadian institutions to have music as part of the curriculum.

At the time when the English Hudson's Bay Company was beginning operations, he was a leader of a French party that went ( 1671 – 72 ) by the Saguenay River, Mistassini Lake, and the Rupert River to Hudson Bay.

French period ( Fort Kaministiquia ): Kamanistigouian, as a place, is first mentioned in a decree of the Conseil Souverain de la Nouvelle-France dated 23 August 1681 instructing one of two canoes to make known the king's amnesty to coureurs de bois, although the Kaministiquia River is depicted on the 1671 " Carte des Jésuites " as " R. par où l ' on va aux Assinipoualacs à 120 lieues vers le Nord-Ouest.