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.

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 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.

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

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.

There, he was the first to urge the establishment of a public school and in the same year he was chosen as a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, to which he was re-elected in 1771, 1772 and 1775.

Gough was chosen a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1767, and was its director from 1771 to 1791.

Hanover, New Hampshire was chosen for the site, and in 1771, four students were graduated in Dartmouth's first commencement, including Wheelock's son John.

A road had to be hacked through trackless forests between Hanover and Portsmouth to permit Governor Wentworth and a company of gentlemen to attend the first Dartmouth commencement in 1771.

This pen name can be seen on the inner front cover of his Persian Grammar published in 1771 ( and in subsequent editions as well ).

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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 ".

The town peaceably petitioned for separation from the town because of its relatively long distance from the rest of Hatfield, and was officially incorporated in 1771, named by Governor Thomas Hutchinson for Thomas Whately, a Member of Parliament whose letter to Hutchinson would later be involved in the controversy which brought on Hutchinson's dismissal.

In 1771 he was appointed to be Governor of Calcutta, the most important of the Presidencies.

Among the other works of Griesbach ( which are comparatively unimportant ) may be mentioned his university thesis De codicibus quatuor evangelislarum Origenianis ( Halle, 1771 ) and a work upon systematic theology ( Anleitung zur Kenntniss der populären Dogmatik, Jena, 1779 ).

The Model 1773 is often considered to be a minor variant to the Model 1770 / 1771.

The German traveller Gmelin, who visited this country a. d. 1771, says that in the space of eight miles, on the road from Resht to Amot, 250 of such streams are to be seen, many of them being so exceedingly broad and deep, that the passage across is sometimes impracticable for weeks together.

Although Corvus is the crow genus to which the choughs ' closest relatives belong, they were considered sufficiently distinctive to be moved to the new genus, Pyrrhocorax, by English ornithologist Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica, The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek πύρρος ( purrhos ), " flame-coloured ", and κόραξ ( korax ), " raven ".

This venture apparently proving to be unsuccessful, he returned to Dublin and the theatre in 1771.

In 1771, when Beckford was ten years old, he inherited £ 1, 000, 000 ( roughly £ 100 million in 2008 values ) and an income which his contemporaries estimated at around £ 100, 000 per annum, a colossal amount at the time ( equivalent to £ 10 million in 2008 ), but which biographers have found to be closer to half of that sum.

In 1771 it was laid down in Jersey that no laws might be adopted without being passed by the States of Jersey.

A later series of oversize issues was used to accommodate the format of some historical works, which the Society had commissioned to be reproduced by Edward Edwards and Samuel Hieronymus Grimm in water-colour in 1771 ; the first issues of these were mostly done by Basire.

The abbé was eventually able to make public demonstrations ( 1771 to 1774 ) of his system, demonstrations that attracted educators and celebrities from all over the continent and that popularised the idea that the deaf could be educated, especially by gesture.

In 1771, the second vehicle is said to have gone out of control and knocked down part of the Arsenal wall, ( reported to be the first known automobile accident ); however according to Georges Ageon, the earliest mention of this occurrence dates from 1801 and it does not feature in contemporary accounts.

The post of director of the Paris observatory was created for his benefit in 1771 when the establishment ceased to be a dependency of the French Academy of Sciences.

After meeting with Raymond F. Thomson, his supervisor, in an unsuccessful attempt to be reinstated, he purchased a ticket on PSA Flight 1771, a daily flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

His most important work is his Histoire de la rivalité de la France et de l ' Angleterre ( in 11 vols., 1771 – 1777 ); and among his other works may be mentioned:

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

Until the 1970s the Memoirs were generally assumed to be authentic-there were editions in 1720-22, 1751, and 1771, with a scholarly edition by C. H.

His other plays are: Clementina ( Covent Garden, February 23, 1771 ), a blank verse tragedy, given out to be the work of a young American clergyman in order to escape the opposition of the Wilkites ; The School for Wives ( Drury Lane, December 11, 1773 ), a prose comedy given out as the work of Major ( afterwards Sir William ) Addington ; a two-act piece, The Romance of an Hour ( Covent Garden, December 2, 1774 ), borrowed from Marmontel's tale L ' amitié à l ' épreuve ; and an unsuccessful comedy, The Man of Reason ( Covent Garden, February 9, 1776 ).

He remained on the continent, " constantly moving ... that he might not know where he should be buried ", and it was in Naples in September 1771 that he contracted a fever and died.