June 17 » Samuel Wallis, a British sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
July 3 » Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
July 3 » Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret.
August 26 » Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.
October 11 » Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
Day of death March 29, 1771
The temperature on March 29, 1771 was about -2 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
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