* Joseph Smith, Sr. ( 1771 – 1840 ), father of Joseph Smith, and first Presiding Patriarch in the Latter Day Saint movement

Etruria Hall, the family home, built 1768 – 1771 by Joseph Pickford.

* August 1 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third ( and last ) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( 1771 – 1772 ) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

Portrait of Marie Antoinette in hunting attire ( a favorite of her mother ), by Joseph Krantzinger ( 1771 ), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

* 1771 — Joseph Priestley demonstrated that plants produce a gas that animals and flames consume.

The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus | The Alchymist, In Search of the Philosophers ' Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771.

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 ).

; 1771: Joseph Eyre publishes a scholarly essay entitled Observations Upon The Prophecies Relating To The Restoration Of The Jews

Marie Julie Bonaparte ( née Clary ; 26 December 1771, Marseille – 7 April 1845, Florence ) was Queen consort of Spain and the Indies, Naples and Sicily as the spouse of King Joseph Bonaparte, who was King of Naples and Sicily from January 1806 to June 1808, and later King of Spain and the Spanish West Indies from 25 June 1808 to June 1813.

Benjamin and Elizabeth had seven more daughters ( Margaret ( 1760 – 1824 ), Juliana ( 1765 – 1845 ), Henrietta ( 1767 – 1848 ), Sophia ( 1769 – 1841 ), Maria ( 1771 – 1840 ), Harriet ( 1775 – 1861 ), and Catherine ( 1779 – 1831 )) and two sons ( Benjamin Jr. ( 1758 – 1844 ) and Joseph ( 1763 – 1764 )).

Joseph Smith, Sr. was born in Topsfield in 1771, and his son, Joseph Smith, Jr., founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

* Nicolas Joseph Maison, Marquis Maison ( 1771 – 1840 ), Marshal of France in 1829

His mother was Marie Françoise Croizet ( 1720 – 1793 ), and his father was Julien Joseph Fouché ( 1719 – 1771 ).

Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d ' Otrante, was a son of Julien Joseph Fouché ( 1719 – 1771 ) and wife Marie Françoise Croizet ( 1720 – 1793 ).

Rachel Rush ( widow of Angus Boyce ) Montgomery was born 18 October 1741 and died 28 July 1798 in Harrisburg, PA. John Montgomery was born in 1771 to Rachel Rush and Joseph Montgomery.

Ruffini developed Joseph Louis Lagrange's work on permutation theory, following 29 years after Lagrange ’ s " Réflexions sur la théorie algébrique des equations " ( 1770 – 1771 ) which was largely ignored until Ruffini who established strong connections between permutations and the solvability of algebraic equations.

The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, by Joseph Wright of Derby | Joseph Wright, 1771

In 1771, four years after Joseph Priestley first created artificially carbonated water, Bergman invented a process to make carbonated water from chalk by the action of sulfuric acid.

Taub's daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Conrad Winebiddle, a German immigrant who moved to Lawrenceville in 1771, founded a tannery, and used the profits to buy Taub's land.

Joseph Smith, Sr. ( July 12, 1771 – September 14, 1840 ) was the father of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

In 1773 the vessels of the Azov Flotilla ( created anew in 1771 ) sailed out into the Black Sea.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

Meanwhile, the British presence in the west continued, until interrupted by Spain during the Falkland Crisis from 10 July 1770 to 22 January 1771.

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

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.

Anglo-Assamese relations, 1771-1826: a history of the relations of Assam with the East India Company from 1771 to 1826, based on original English and Assamese sources.

* The Beilstein database contains information on 9. 8 million substances, covers the scientific literature from 1771 to the present, and is today accessible via Reaxys.

Utopian socialists such as Robert Owen ( 1771 – 1858 ) tried to found self-sustaining communes by secession from a capitalist society.

The first diving dress using a compressed air reservoir was successfully designed and built in 1771 by Sieur ( old French for " sir " or " Mister ") Fréminet, a Frenchman from Paris.

The word ‘ tattoo ’ was brought to Europe by the explorer James Cook when he returned 1771 from his first voyage to Tahiti and New Zealand.

A detail from Benjamin West's heroic, neoclassicism | neoclassical history painting, The Death of General Wolfe ( 1771 ), depicting an idealized indigenous peoples of the Americas | Native American.

When Jurij was 33 he married Josefa Svoboda ( Jožefa Swoboda ) ( 1771 – 1800 ), a Czech noble from České Budějovice who was 16 at that time.

The general ill will against Struensee, which had been smouldering all through the autumn of 1771, found expression at last in a secret conspiracy against him, headed by Rantzau-Ascheburg and others, in the name of the Queen Dowager Juliana Maria, who in this way was willing to wrest power away from the king, and secure her and her son ’ s position of power for many years to come.

Tacitus describes her as the " wife of the Plautius who returned from Britain with an ovation ", which led John Lingard ( 1771 – 1851 ) to conclude, in his History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, that she was British ; however, this conclusion is a misinterpretation of what Tacitus wrote.

Map from 1771, showing " Terres Australes " ( sic ) label without any charted landmass.

The Triumvirate arose in 1771, when Louis XV banished Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1758, and reshuffled the cabinet.

His dismissal of the Parlement de Paris and his chief Minister, Choisieul, in 1771, were attempts to wrest control of government from those Louis considered corrupt.

He was named as the British govenor of the Province of New York from 1770 to 1771.

Dunmore actively served as royal governor of the Colony of Virginia from 25 September 1771 until his departure to New York in 1776 ; he continued to hold the position and to draw his pay until 1783 when American independence was recognized.

The species was initially described by Linnaeus in 1771, the specific epithet biloba derived from the Latin bis ' two ' and loba ' lobed ', referring to the shape of the leaves.

Arthur Young came with his wife on horseback from Durham in 1771:

By 1771, one could count up to 50 vessels from throughout Greece in the roads.

Thomas Jefferson planted pomegranates at Monticello in 1771: he had them from George Wythe of Williamsburg.

He spent the greater part of his life in the little town of Wandsbeck, where he earned his first literary reputation by editing from 1771 to 1775, a newspaper called Der Wandsbecker Bothe ( The Wandsbeck Messenger ) ( Wandsbeck until the year 1879 still written with " ck ".