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Events from the year 1771 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

22 January – Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain.^[2]
15 March – Society of Civil Engineers first meets (in London), the world's oldest engineering society.^[3]^[4]
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.^[5]
17 August – Edinburgh botanist James Robertson makes the first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis.
30 September – Bath Assembly Rooms completed.
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 – Several rivers flood in northern England, destroying many bridges and killing several people.^[6]^[7]

Sir John Dalrymple's history Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last parliament of Charles II until the sea battle of La Hogue, first revealing the 1670 Secret Treaty of Dover.
Encyclopædia Britannica completes publication.^[2]
Henry Mackenzie's novel The Man of Feeling.^[2]
Tobias Smollett's novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.^[2]
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.

^ "History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 326–327. ISBN 978-0-304-35730-7.
^ Watson, Garth (1989). The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-1526-5.
^ Roberts, Gwilym (1995). From Kendal's Coffee House to Great George Street. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-2022-1.
^ "Horsham Cricket Club History". Horsham Cricket Club. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
^ "Newcastle". Newcastle Courant. 23 November 1771. p. 2.
^ 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.
^ "BBC History British History Timeline". Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
^ Marshall, P. J. (September 2004). "Hastings, Warren (1732–1818)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12587. Retrieved 1 November 2011. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ Keene, Henry George (1891). "Hastings, Warren" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.