Year (''' 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 ).
- April - 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 .
- 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 )
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- 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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