Morgan lands at Panama City
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 for treason
- 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 11 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
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