1671

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Year 1671 (MDCLXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1671

• 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 - The Ottoman Empire declares war on Poland.

July - December

• December - The first Seventh Day Baptist church in America is founded at Newport, Rhode Island.

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)

Deaths

• January 6 - Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (born 1643)
• April 30 - Petar Zrinski, Croatian Ban (title) and nobleman (born 1621).
• April 30 - 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)

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