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Calendar year
June 7 :
Christian V is crowned as King of Denmark and of Norway at
Frederiksborg Castle .
December 30 : The
Académie royale d'architecture is founded.
1671 (
MDCLXXI ) was a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Julian calendar , the 1671st year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 671st year of the
2nd millennium , the 71st year of the
17th century , and the 2nd year of the
1670s decade. As of the start of 1671, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 1 – The
Criminal Ordinance of 1670 , the first attempt at a uniform code of criminal procedure in France, goes into effect after having been passed on August 26, 1670.
January 5 – The
Battle of Salher is fought in
India as the first major confrontation between the
Maratha Empire and the
Mughal Empire , with the Maratha Army of 40,000 infantry and cavalry under the command of General
Prataprao Gujar defeating a larger Mughal force led by General
Diler Khan .
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January 17 – The ballet
Psyché , with music composed by
Jean-Baptiste Lully , premieres before the royal court of King
Louis XIV at the
Théâtre des Tuileries in
Paris .
January 28 –
Henry Morgan's Panama expedition - the city of
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá , founded more than 150 years earlier at the
Isthmus of Panama by Spanish settlers and the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Ocean, is destroyed by the
Welsh pirate
Henry Morgan . The last surviving original structures are now part of
Panama City , capital of the Central American nation of
Panama .
February 1 – The Tsar
Alexis of Russia marries
Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina , who gives birth 16 months later to the future
Peter the Great .
February 27 – The
Ortenau meteorite lands in Germany.
March 3 –
Pomone , written by
Robert Cambert and considered by modern scholars to be the first
French
opera , is given its first performance. Using innovative costumes, and machinery for special stage effects, the premiere performed by the
Académie d'Opéra at the
Salle de la Bouteille theater in Paris is a success.
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March 11 – The
Danish West India Company , a charter ship company whose operations include
human trafficking of African slaves to the Western Hemisphere by its Danish Africa Company subsidiary, is founded.
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March 15 –
A tornado kills more than 600 people in the city of
Cadiz in
Spain .
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March 22 –
Sabine baronets title is created in England for John Sabine.
March 31 – England's
Royal Navy launches its first warship to have a frame reinforced by iron bars rather than an all wooden ship, an innovation by naval architect
Anthony Deane . The state of the art, 102-gun ship is commissioned on January 18, 1672, as the flagship for Admiral
Edward Montagu but is sunk less than five months later in the
Battle of Solebay . Iron-framed ships are not attempted again for almost 50 years.
March – In the
Battle of Saraighat in India, fought in mid-March, General
Lachit Borphukan of the
Ahom kingdom , located in what is now the Indian state of
Assam defeats a larger force of
Mughal Empire troops on the outskirts of what is now
Guwahati .
April–June
April 2 – In Rome,
Pope Clement X
canonizes
Rose of Lima , making her the first
Catholic
saint of the Americas.
May 9 –
Thomas Blood , disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the
Tower of London . He is immediately caught, because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death, and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by
King Charles II .
June 7 – The coronation ceremony of
Christian V of Denmark-Norway takes place at the
Frederiksborg Castle in
Hillerød , north of
Copenhagen . Christian had assumed the throne on February 9, 1670, upon the death of his father, Frederick III.
June 22 – The
Ottoman Empire declares
war on Poland .
July–September
October–December
October 25 – Italian-born French astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers
Iapetus , the second known moon of the planet
Saturn .
Christiaan Huygens had discovered the Saturnian moon
Titan on March 25, 1655.
October 30 – The
Republic of Venice and the
Ottoman Empire sign a treaty delineating the borders between their territories in modern-day Greece, with Venice acknowledging the loss of the island of
Crete in the
Cretan War .
November 8 –
Dionysius IV , bishop of Larissa, is elected as the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople , leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christians, after
Parthenius IV is sent into exile.
November 9 – The
Duke of York's Theatre is opened in
London by the players of the
Duke's Company , rivals to the "King's Company" at the Theatre Royal, which burns down two months later. The site is now the Dorset Garden Theatre.
November 18 – In southwest Africa, troops of the Army of
Portugal , under the command of
Luís Lopes de Sequeira , win the
Battle of Pungo Andongo , capturing the fortress capital of the
Kingdom of Ndongo after nine months and deposing King Ngola Hari. The kingdom is annexed into the Portuguese colony of Angola.
November 19 –
Lê Gia Tông , age 10, is installed as the figurehead
Emperor of Vietnam (a kingdom known as
Đại Việt or Annam) by the warlord
Trịnh Tạc , after the death, three days earlier, of
Lê Huyền Tông . He reigns until his death on April 3, 1675.
December 7 – The first
Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded with a service on a Saturday at
Newport, Rhode Island , by Stephen Mumford and four Sabbatarians who believed that Christian church services should be held on Saturday, the seventh and last day of the week, in keeping with the commandment of remembering the
Sabbath .
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December 30 – The
Académie royale d'architecture is founded by
Louis XIV of France in
Paris as the world's first school of
architecture .
Undated
Births
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
January 11 –
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie , French military leader (d.
1745 )
February 26 –
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , English politician and philosopher (d.
1713 )
March 7 –
Rob Roy MacGregor , Scottish folk hero (d.
1734 )
April 6 –
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau , French poet (d.
1741 )
April 21 –
John Law , Scottish economist (d.
1729 )
May 24 –
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1737 )
June 8 –
Tomaso Albinoni , Italian composer (d.
1751 )
June 21 –
Christian Detlev Reventlow , Danish diplomat and military leader, brother-in-law of king
Frederick IV of Denmark (d.
1738 )
July 9 –
Margareta von Ascheberg , Swedish land owner, countess and acting
regimental
colonel (d.
1753 )
July 14 –
Jacques d'Allonville , French astronomer and mathematician (d.
1732 )
October 1 –
Guido Grandi , Italian mathematician (d.
1742 )
October 11 – King
Frederick IV of Denmark (d.
1730 )
November 6 –
Colley Cibber , English actor-manager and poet laureate (d.
1757 )
November 15 (bapt.) –
Anne Bracegirdle , English actress (d.
1748 )
Deaths
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Blessed
Antonio Grassi
January 6 –
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (b.
1643 )
January 24 –
Philipp, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (b.
1616 )
January 25 –
Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein , Rector of the University of Leipzig (b.
1621 )
February 18 –
John Mennes , English Royal Navy admiral (b.
1599 )
February 22 –
Adam Olearius , German scholar (b.
1599 )
February 19 –
Tokugawa Yorinobu , Japanese nobleman (b.
1602 )
March 1
March 7 –
Antonio de la Cerda, 7th Duke of Medinaceli , Grandee of Spain (b.
1607 )
March 15 –
Axel Urup , Danish general (b.
1601 )
March 31 –
Anne Hyde , wife of the future
James II of England (b.
1637 )
April 20 –
Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon , French mathematician (b.
1596 )
April 23 –
Theodorick Bland of Westover , American politician (b.
1629 )
April 30
May 5 –
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester , English politician (b.
1602 )
May 8 –
Sébastien Bourdon , French painter and engraver (b.
1616 )
May 12 –
Pedro de Villagómez Vivanco , Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lima, then Bishop of Arequipa (b.
1589 )
May 16 –
Sir John Langham, 1st Baronet , English Member of Parliament (b.
1584 )
May 19 –
John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore , English politician and Viscount (b.
1601 )
June 2
June 9 –
Sebastian von Rostock , German bishop (b.
1607 )
June 25 –
Giovanni Battista Riccioli , Italian astronomer (b.
1598 )
July 4 –
Jan Cossiers , Flemish painter (b.
1600 )
July 14 –
Méric Casaubon , English classical scholar (b.
1599 )
July 30 –
Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (b.
1650 )
August 3 –
Antonio Barberini , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1607 )
August 10 –
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Godstone , English noble (b.
1633 )
September 1 –
Hugues de Lionne , French statesman (b.
1611 )
September 11 –
Roshanara Begum , Mughal princess (b.
1617 )
September 19 –
Gilbert Ironside the elder , English bishop (b.
1588 )
October 5 –
Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1622–1671) (b.
1595 )
October 26 –
Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet , English politician (b.
1593 )
November 12 –
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron , English Civil War general (b.
1612 )
November 20 –
Thomas Trenchard , English politician (b.
1640 )
December 13 –
Antonio Grassi , Italian
Roman Catholic priest and beatus (b.
1592 )
December 18 –
Samuel Gott , English politician (b.
1614 )
December 28 –
Johann Friedrich Gronovius , German classical scholar (b.
1611 )
References
^ Sharad Pawar, the Maratha Legacy , ed. by S. R. Bakshi et al., (APH Publishing Corporation, 1998) p. 12
^ "Cambert, Robert", by Christina Bashford, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (Macmillan, 1992) pp. 696–698
^ Waldemar Westergaard, The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754): With a Supplementary Chapter, 1755-1917 (Macmillan, 1917) pp. 31–32
^ Esteban Mira Caballos, Las Armadas del Imperio: Poder y hegemonía en tiempo de los Austrias (La Esfera de los Libros, S.L.
^
"Deadly European Tornadoes (1091–2013)" . B. Antonescu . November 14, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
^ Samuel G. Drake, The Book of the Indians, or, Biography and history of the Indians of North America, from its first discovery to the year 1841 (Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845) p. 65
^ Clarence H. Haring, The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (E. P. Dutton, 1910) p. 200
^ Scott Bryant, The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition (Mercer University Press, 2011) p. 19
^ Sanford, Don A. (1992). A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists . Nashville: Broadman Press. pp. 127–286.
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