HMS Endeavour

In the year 1771, Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden (Feb 12), the first voyage of James Cook around the world ends as HMS Endeavour returns to England after almost three years (Jul 12), Russian troops occupy the Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War (Jul 13), the bubonic plague ravaging in Moscow causes riots there (Sep 15), the Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks off the coast of Finland (Oct 9) - and all these fine people were born:

1771-0214 Hanne Tott* Danish circus artist and manager - Hamburg, Germany (1826/55)

1771-0316 Antoine-Jean Gros* painter - Paris, France (1835/64)
1771-0326 Elias Hänninen* lay preacher - Kangasniemi, Sweden-Finland (1851/79)

1771-0413 Richard Trevithick* mining engineer/inventor - Tregajorran, Cornwall, England (1833/62)

1771-0501 Cajsa Wahllund* businesswoman/restaurateur active in Helsinki (Kaisaniemi) - Värmland, Sweden (1843/72)
1771-0508 Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar* folksinger – Ilomantsi, Sweden-Finland (1846/75)

1771-0608 Henry Thomas Austen* militia officer/banker/elder brother of Jane Austen - Steventon, Hampshire, England (1850/78)
1771-0624 Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours* French-American chemist/industrialist/founder of the gunpowder manufacturer E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company - Paris, France (1834/63)

1771-0803 Anders Carlsson af Kullberg* author/civil servant/bishop - Strö, Skåne, Sweden (1851/79)
1771-0815 Sir Walter Scott* novelist/poet/historian - Edinburgh, Scotland (1832/61)

1771-0911 Mungo Park* explorer of West Africa - Selkirkshire, Scotland (1806/35)

1771-1001 Pierre Baillot* violinist/composer - Passy, France (1842/70)

1771-1106 Alois Senefelder* actor/playwright/inventor of lithography - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (1834/62)
1771-1114 Marie François Xavier Bichat* - anatomist/pathologist/the father of modern histology - Thoirette, France (1802/30)

1771-1214 Regina von Siebold* (b Henning) German physician/obstetrician - Geismar, Holy Roman Empire (1849/77)

Updated 22.3.2021
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