Historical 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 22 King Charles II sits in on English parliament
- 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
- Oct 25 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn
- Nov 1 French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
- Nov 11 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
Rob RoyWorld Leaders in 1671
Charles II
Louis XIV
Famous People Who Died in 1671
- Mar 31 Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
- May 7 Pieter Stockmans, Flemish chairman of Opperkrijgshof, dies at 62
- Jun 6 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/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
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