Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

9: 6 Trio Sonatas for Violin, Cello and Basso Continuo ( 1771 )

11: 6 Concerti for Keyboard and Strings ( 1771 )

* Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet ( 1699 – 1771 ), Irish MP for Carlow County 1730 – 1761

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.

In its extended usage it came to refer to carts for carrying heavy loads, a meaning known since 1771.

In September 1771, Bligh was transferred to the Crescent and remained on the ship for three years.

* 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.

* The town of Martinsborough, North Carolina, itself named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin in 1771, is renamed " Greenesville " in honor of United States General Nathanael Greene by the North Carolina General Assembly ; the name " Greenesville " is later shortened to become Greenville.

In 1771, the Count of Nassau-Usingen granting a concession for gambling in Wiesbaden.

Born in 1771 in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents, John Lingard entered the English College at Douai, France, to commence training for the Catholic priesthood.

Struensee held absolute sway for ten months, between 20 March 1771 and 16 January 1772.

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.

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

In 1771, Richard Arkwright used waterwheels to power looms for the production of cotton cloth, his invention becoming known as the water frame.

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.

The original purpose of Queen's College was to " educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences " and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church The college admitted its first students in 1771 — a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor — and granted its first degree in 1774, to Matthew Leydt.

Its 1771 edition offered the following as scientific evidence for the ark's size and capacity: "... Buteo and Kircher have proved geometrically, that, taking the common cubit as a foot and a half, the ark was abundantly sufficient for all the animals supposed to be lodged in it ... the number of species of animals will be found much less than is generally imagined, not amounting to a hundred species of quadrupeds ".

It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771.

* Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse – first established in 1771, the current structure was built in 1878 and is open for monthly tours from May through September.

* Thomas Morris ( 1771 – 1849 ), Marshal for New York District.

It began as part of Paris, granted by the Massachusetts General Court in 1771 to Captain Joshua Fuller and his company of 64 soldiers as payment for their service to the colony.

In France, for example, Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story of Beauty and the Beast written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771.

Deal was, for example, visited by Nelson and was the first English soil on which James Cook set foot in 1771 on returning from first voyage to Australia.

As Empress, she helped as much as possible her numerous poor relations, some of whom, for example her brother, Alexander of Württemberg ( 1771 – 1833 ), were invited to Russia.

Lessing's Emilia Galotti of 1771 is a classic example of the German Bürgerliches Trauerspiel.

A significant example of this level of influence occurred in 1771, as described above, following the " big bat " controversy when Nyren, Brett and Small effectively changed the Laws of Cricket by setting the maximum bat width.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

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.

According to one theory, the term was loaned to Russian, where-in literary language-it first appeared in " Elysei ", a 1771 poem by V. Maikov.

Among the plays which he wrote in French, the most successful was Le bourru bienfaisant, produced on the occasion of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1771.

A Lucy Swift gave birth in 1771 to a baby, also named Lucy, who was christened a daughter of her mother and William Swift, but there is reason to believe the father was really Darwin.

It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland as three volumes.

The Britannica was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh as the Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan.

In 1771 and again in 1775 the town of St. George, which was constructed solely of wood, was burnt to the ground-after which it was sensibly rebuilt using stone and brick.

In 1771 Lessing was initiated into Freemasonry in the lodge " Zu den drei Rosen " in Hamburg.

In 1771 Mozart's copy was procured and published in England by the famous traveler and music historian Dr. Burney.

The first knitting machine was brought to Hawick in 1771 by John Hardie, building on an existing carpet manufacturing trade.

As a condition of his return he was not allowed to publish any books, but after completing his Confessions, Rousseau began private readings in 1771.

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

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.

The story was then repeated by the French writers Jean-Baptiste Ragon ( 1771 – 1862 ) and Emmanuel Rebold, in their Masonic histories.

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.

Year 1771 ( MDCCLXXI ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.