January 22, 1771 Spain yielded control

of the Falkland Islands to England

July 1771Construction on the

Lyceum Theatre began.

July 12, 1771James Cook aboard

the Endeavor makes a triumphant return to

England

August 17, 1771 The botonist James Robertson became the first person to

climb Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in

the Brittish Isles

October 2, 1771 The Kings brothe,

Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and

Strathearn, married the widow Anne

Horton, a commoner