* 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 )

Inspired by Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) Mahfouz planned to cover the whole history of Egypt in a series of books.

* 1832 – Walter Scott, Scottish author, poet, and playwright ( b. 1771 )

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet ( 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 ) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

* September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer ( b. 1771 )

* Sir Walter Scott, 1st Bt ( writer ) ( 1771 – 1832 )

* Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) lawyer, novelist, poet

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) wrote the novel The Heart of Midlothian and lived at Lasswade Cottage ( now Sir Walter Scott's Cottage ) in Lasswade from 1798 to 1804, where he wrote his Grey Brother, translation of Goetz von Berlichingen, etc.

In 1757 Wesley described Taylor's views as ‘ old deism in a new dress .’ Job Orton remarked ( 1778 ) that ‘ he had to the last a great deal of the puritan in him .’ Orton's earlier guess ( 1771 ), adopted by Walter Wilson, that Taylor had become a Socinian, is dismissed as groundless by Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Many of his extant poems were printed from 1771 onwards in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, and a collected works was first published early in 1773.

After February 1771 he began to contribute poems to Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Review.

The term was first used by Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) in Ivanhoe ( 1820 ) to describe a " medieval mercenary warrior " or " free-lance " ( indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services, not that the lance is available free of charge ).

Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ), a friend of John Leyden's, was the first to refer to the vessel as a pirate ship, writing in the notes to Rokeby ; a poem ( first published December 1812 ) that the ship was " originally a vessel loaded with great wealth, on board of which some horrid act of murder and piracy had been committed " and that the apparition of the ship " is considered by the mariners as the worst of all possible omens.

* 1803 " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border " by Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 )

1771: Sir Walter Scott is born

Born in College Wynd in the Old Town of Edinburgh in 1771, the son of a solicitor, Scott survived a childhood bout of polio in 1773 that left him lame.

Friction with the provincial government rose notably when, in October 1771, Allen and a company of Boys drove off a group of Scottish settlers near Rupert.

* 1771 – Mungo Park, Scottish explorer ( d. 1806 )

* Mungo Park, Scottish explorer ( b. 1771 )

* March 19 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author ( d. 1771 )

Inflammatory bowel diseases were described by Giovanni Battista Morgagni ( 1682 – 1771 ) and by Scottish physician T. Kennedy Dalziel in 1913.

II by Scottish botanist Philip Miller ( 1691 – 1771 ).

* Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk ( 1771 – 1820 ), Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

William Lauder (– 1771 ) was a Scottish literary forger, the second son of Dr William Lauder ( 1652 – 1724 ), one of the original 21 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, by his spouse Catherine Brown ( died 1698 ).

* March 19-Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author ( died 1771 )

Mungo Park ( 11 September 1771 – 1806 ) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent.

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk ( 20 June 1771 — 8 April 1820 ) was a Scottish peer.

* Agnes Reston ( 1771 – 1856 ), Scottish wartime nurse during the Peninsular War

Philip Miller FRS ( 1691 – 18 December 1771 ) was a Scottish botanist.

* William Lauder ( forger ) ( c. 1680 – 1771 ) Scottish literary forger ; article on John Milton's Paradise Lost as largely a plagiarism of earlier works

* Sydney Parkinson ( 1745 – 1771 ), Scottish illustrator

* Sydney Parkinson ( 1745 – 1771 ), Scottish natural history artist

Sydney Parkinson ( c. 1745 – 26 January 1771 ) was a Scottish Quaker, botanical illustrator and natural history artist.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 1771 ), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758.

* Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville ( 1771 – 1851 ), Scottish nobleman