He painted his most famous, and possibly most influential painting, The Death of General Wolfe, in 1770, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1771.

In 1768, and 1770-1, he exhibited a series of pictures illustrating ' Gulliver's visit to the Houyhnhnms ', one of which was engraved in mezzotint by Valentine Green ; in 1770 a drawing of ' Darius gaining the Persian Empire by the neighing of his horse ; in 1771 ' The Duke of Cumberland visiting his stud ( with a view of Windsor Castle from the Great Park, by

To the Academy he contributed a wax model of Neptune ( 1770 ); four portrait models in wax ( 1771 ); a terracotta bust, a wax figure of a child, an historical figure ( 1772 ); a figure of Comedy ; and a relief of a Vestal ( 1773 ).

* January 16 – Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, German portrait painter ( b. 1771 )

He is included in Johan Zoffany's group portrait of the members of the academy ( begun in 1771 ); a late addition to the composition, he was painted on an extra strip of canvas, attached to the right-hand side of the painting.

Morland was a close friend of fellow artist, William Armfield Hobday ( 1771 – 1831 ) who painted a portrait of the artist which is still intact.

* February 17-William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist ( born 1771 )

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.

The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771.

* 1771 – Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1847 )

* April 30 – Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general ( b. 1771 )

Charles Messier measured the position of the cluster and included it as M45 in his catalogue of comet-like objects, published in 1771.

* 1771 — Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae

The Barre settled in Pointe Coupee, LA, where they met the Nezat ( Pierre Nezat coming from Santo Domingo ( French Saint Domingue, West part of Hispaniola ) and the Provost ( Nicolas Provost coming from Paris via Fort de Chartres, IL ). In 1771, Charles Alex Barre, French Creole, married in Pointe Coupee, LA, Magdelaine Decuir and both had 11 children.

* Colonel Charles Stewart: Irish immigrant, member of Hunterdon County Militia in 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 ).

Charles Messier published the first edition of his catalog of deep sky objects in 1774 ( completed in 1771 ).

In 1771 Augustus George of Baden-Baden died without sons, and his territories passed to Charles Frederick, who thus finally became ruler of the whole of Baden.

* Charles Moore ( English politician ) ( 1771 – 1826 ), English politician, Member of Parliament 1799 – 1802, 1802 – 1806 and 1807 – 1812

Müller's letters to Füsslin ( 1771 – 1807 ) were issued at Zürich ( 1812 ), and those to Charles Bonnet, etc., at Stuttgart ( 1835 ).

On the death of Charles Alston in 1760, Cullen at the request of the students undertook to finish his course of lectures on materia medica ; he delivered an entirely new course, notes of which were published in an unauthorized edition in 1771, but which he re-wrote and issued as A Treatise on Materia Medica in 1789.

Charles Brockden Brown ( January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810 ), an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, is generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.

* The House of the Prince ( La Casita del Príncipe )-in neoclassical style, constructed between 1771 and 1775 and remodeled in 1781, under King Charles III by the architect Juan de Villanueva.

Charles Lawrence Dundas ( 18 July 1771 – 25 January 1810 )

File: Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeare's Cymbeline Charles Willson Peale 1771. jpeg | Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeare's Cymbeline ( 1771 )

Later, it was used as an observatory by the astronomer Charles Messier, who in 1771 published his observations in the landmark Messier catalog.

Some time during his travels, he met the British historian Dr Charles Burney, who obtained the piece from him and took it to London, where it was published in 1771.

* Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine ( 1732 – 1771 )

* Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine ( 1732 – 1771 )

On 13 January 1772, Sharp was visited and asked for help by James Somersett, a slave from Virginia in America, who had come to England with his master Charles Stewart in 1769 and had run away in October 1771.

* Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford ( 1771 – 1845 )

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.

In 1771, at the age of 28, Lavoisier married 13-year-old Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, the daughter of a co-owner of the Ferme générale.

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.

From Hudson Bay, in 1690 Henry Kelsey reached the lower Saskatchewan River, in 1754 Anthony Henday followed the Saskatchewan almost to the Rocky Mountains and in 1771 Samuel Hearne reached the Arctic coast at the Coppermine River.

From July 1765, he also served as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas and began service as the customs collector at New Castle in 1771.

King Gustav III ( 1746 – 1792 ) came to the throne in 1771, and in 1772 led a coup d ' état, with French support, that established him as an " enlightened despot ," who ruled at will.

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

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.

Things were at their worst during the winter of 1771.

The king, queen, Struensee and Enevold Brandt, along with the royal court spent the summer of 1771 at Hirschholm Palace north of Copenhagen, and stayed there until late in the autumn.

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.

In March 1771 Mendelssohn's health deteriorated so badly that Marcus Elieser Bloch, his doctor, decided his patient had to give up philosophy, at least temporarily.

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.

" After 1762, his compositional efforts seem to have been limited to revising his earlier work ; and after 1771 he composed not at all.

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

***** Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( 1771 – 1815 ), his son, the Black Duke, killed at the Battle of Quatre Bras

In 1771 and 1773 Philidor made brief stays in London to play at the Salopian coffee-house, Charing Cross and at the St James Chess Club.

Again, at the request of Chief Netawatwees in 1771, David Zeisberger returned to found additional missions in the Tuscarawas Valley.

Tryon sent troops from his militia to the region and defeated the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance in May 1771.

Several trials were held after the war, resulting in the hanging of six Regulators at Hillsborough on June 19, 1771.

The county was organized at Dover in 1771.

The county was organized in 1771, with its county seat at Exeter.

The county was organized at Amherst on March 19, 1771.