Major Events
- Jan 27 Welsh pirate Henry Morgan lands at the gates of Panama City
- Jan 28 Welsh pirate Henry Morgan captures Panama City from its Spanish defenders
- Apr 14 Cossacks capture Russian peasant leader Stenka Razin
- Apr 30 Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
- May 9 Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London, captured running from the tower with the jewels [1]
- Jun 4 Pageant of 1671: French claim possession of lands "from the northern and western seas to the southern sea, including lands yet to be discovered" in ceremony at Jesuit Mission, Sault Saint, Canada [1]
- Jun 14 French officer Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson takes possession for France of Lake Huron and Superior "and all the other contiguous and adjacent countries, rivers, lakes and streams, here, both discovered and yet to be discovered", at assembly of fourteen Amerindian nations at Sault-Sainte-Marie [1]
- Oct 25 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
- Nov 1 French King Louis XIV and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
- Nov 11 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
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Who Died in 1671
- Mar 31 Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
- Jun 6 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian Cossack and Boer leader quartered alive (ns. 16 June)
- Jun 16 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
- Jun 25 Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (Almagestum Novum), dies at 73
- Jul 14 Méric Casaubon, French-English classical scholar (1st to translate Marcus Aurelius into English), dies at 71
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