1671
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| Decades: | 1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s |
| Years: | 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1671 MDCLXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2424 |
| Armenian calendar | 1120 ԹՎ ՌՃԻ |
| Chinese calendar | 4367 – 4368 庚戌 – 辛亥 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1663 – 1664 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5431 – 5432 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1726 – 1727 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1593 – 1594 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4772 – 4773 |
| Iranian calendar | 1049 – 1050 |
| Islamic calendar | 1082 – 1083 |
1671 (MDCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- April - Battle of Saraighat. The Ahom general Lachit Borphukan defeated the Mughal forces on the outskirts of present day Guwahati of then sovereign Assam.
- May 9 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He would later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
- June 22 - Ottoman Empire declares war on Poland
[edit] Births
- 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 11 - Colley Cibber, English poet (d. 1757)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (born 1643)
- April 30th - Petar Zrinski, Croatian Ban (title) and nobleman (born 1621).
- April 30th - Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian poet and nobleman (born 1643).
- March 31 - Anne Hyde, wife of the future James II of England (born 1637)
- May 5 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (born 1602)
- June 25 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (born 1598)
- July 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (born 1599)
- October 26 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician (born 1593)
- November 12 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (born 1612)
- December 28 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (born 1611)
