* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

* 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1820 )

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

* Ursin Durand ( 1682 – 1771 )

Clausewitz, Hermann von Boyen ( 1771 – 1848 ) and Karl von Grolman ( 1777 – 1843 ) were Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814.

* 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

* Jacques le fataliste et son maître, novel ( 1771 – 1778 )

* 1697 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist ( d. 1771 )

* 1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1771 )

* 1716 – Thomas Gray, English writer ( d. 1771 )

* 1771 – Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples ( d. 1845 )

The Encyclopédie in turn inspired the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica, which had a modest beginning in Scotland: the first edition, issued between 1768 and 1771, had just three hastily completed volumes – A – B, C – L, and M – Z – with a total of 2, 391 pages.

** Rossiada by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov ( 1771 – 1779 )

* 1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher ( d. 1771 )

* 1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.

* George Clinton, Jr. ( 1771 – 1809 ), U. S. Representative from New York, nephew of Vice President George Clinton

* Georg von Reichenbach 1771 – 1826, Bavaria ( Germany )

Between 1764 and 1771, the average importation of slaves varied between 10 000 – 15 000, by 1786 about 28 000, and, from 1787 onward, the colony received more than 40 000 slaves a year.

* 1731 – 1771: Frederick William, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt ( son of )

* 1771 – 1788: Frederick Henry, Prince in Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg Schwedt ( brother of )

* Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in 1771

* Mission San Gabriel founded in 1771

* Mission San Diego de Alcalá ( 1769 – 1771 )

* Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo ( 1771 – 1815 )

The Mission was abandoned in 1771.

The name Gabrieleño is in reference to the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel set up by the Spanish colonists in 1771.

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was established in 1771.

On September 8, 1771, the Franciscans established the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in the San Gabriel Valley.

In 1771, the Franciscans established the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in the San Gabriel Valley.

Based on his recommendation, Father Junípero Serra established Mission San Antonio de Padua in the valley in 1771, and it thrived.

The first conversions to Catholicism were at Mission San Carlos Borromeo, alias Carmel, in 1771.

Mission San Antonio de Padua was founded on July 14, 1771, the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra, and site of the first Christian marriage and first use of fired-tile roofing in Upper California.

The river itself was named for the Spanish Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, which was originally built in the Whittier Narrows in 1771.

Franciscan Missionaries, Fathers Angel Somera and Pedro Cambon, founded the original Mission San Gabriel Arcangel on September 8, 1771, near where San Gabriel Boulevard now crosses the Rio Hondo, which is also near the present day Sanchez Adobe Mansion.

After the Spanish founded Mission San Gabriel in 1771, the Chino Hills were used extensively for grazing by mission cattle.

In May 1771, the viceroy approved Serra's petition to relocate the mission to its current location near the present-day town of Carmel-by-the-Sea and named it Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.

The river derives its name from the Spanish Mission San Gabriel Arcángel founded in 1771, now in the present day city of San Gabriel.

In 1771, the Spanish invaded and founded Mission San Gabriel Arcángel which was originally built on the banks of the Rio Hondo, a tributary of the San Gabriel River in the Whittier Narrows, in 1771.

In 1771 the Franciscan Mission of Zenta found a better reception.

Near the end of 1771 the Portolà Expedition arrived at San Francisco Bay ; between 1774 and 1791, the Spanish Crown sent forth a number of expeditions to explore the Pacific Northwest.

Well over 25, 000 baptisms were conducted at San Gabriel between 1771 and 1834, making it the most prolific in the mission chain.

The county is named for Jose Maria Amador, soldier, rancher and miner, who was born in San Francisco in 1794, the son of Sergeant Pedro Amador ( a Spanish soldier who settled in California in 1771 ) and younger brother to Sinforosa Amador.

On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashed in San Luis Obisop County after a passenger shot 5 people on board, including the pilots, then intentionally crashed the plane.

Well over 25, 000 baptisms were conducted at San Gabriel between 1771 and 1834.

On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, bound from Los Angeles International Airport to San Francisco, was cruising above the central California coast when a disgruntled USAir employee aboard the plane shot his ex-supervisor, both pilots and then himself, causing the airplane to crash near Cayucos.

Near the end of 1771 the Portolà expedition arrived at San Francisco Bay ( discovered in 1769 ).

* On December 7, 1987, PSA Flight 1771, a BAe 146, bound for San Francisco International Airport from Los Angeles International Airport, was cruising above the central California coast when it suddenly entered a high-speed nosedive and crashed on a cattle ranch near the small town of Cayucos.