1771 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1771 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Incumbents

22 January - Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain.^[1]
15 March - Society of Civil Engineers first meets (in London), the world's oldest engineering society.^[2]^[3]
12 July - First voyage of James Cook (begun 1768): HMS Endeavour anchors in The Downs, and Captain Cook goes ashore at Deal, Kent, following his global circumnavigation.
8 August - First recorded town cricket match played at Horsham; Horsham Cricket Club formed here soon after 1806.^[4]
17 August - Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis.
2 October - Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, brother to the King, marries a commoner, the widow Anne Horton, in Mayfair, precipitating the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
16 November - During the night:
- The River Tyne floods, destroying many bridges and killing several people; the replacement main bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne will not be completed until 1781.
- Solway Moss, on the Cumberland/Scotland border, bursts, flooding local farms and settlements.^[5]

Encyclopædia Britannica completes publication.^[1]
Henry Mackenzie's novel The Man of Feeling.^[1]
Tobias Smollett's novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.^[1]
Peter Williams (1722-1796)'s Hymns on Various Subjects (includes "Prayer for Strength", the first English translation of the Welsh hymn "Cwm Rhondda").
Arthur Young's The Farmer's Kalendar.
Allegri's Miserere.

1 2 3 4 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 326–327. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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↑ Roberts, Gwilym (1995). From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 0-7277-2022-8.
↑ "Horsham Cricket Club History". Horsham Cricket Club. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
↑ McEwen, Lindsey J.; Withers, Charles W. J. (1989). "Historical records and geomorphological events: the 1771 ‘eruption’ of Solway Moss". Scottish Geographical Magazine 105 (3): 149–157. doi:10.1080/14702548908554428. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
↑ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
↑ Marshall, P. J. (September 2004). "Hastings, Warren (1732–1818)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12587. Retrieved 2011-11-01. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Keene, Henry George (1891). "Hastings, Warren". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.