Timeline May 1771

Events in May 1771 3

• 1722 – 1771 Christopher Smart (1722-1771) Died 21 May 1771, aged 49 Christopher Smart was an English poet known for the religious poem "A Song to David" and the posthumously published "Jubilate Agno." He suffered from mental illness and spent years confined to asylums and debtors prison. He died in a London debtors prison on 21 May 1771.
• 1771 – 1858 Robert Owen (1771-1858) Died 17 November 1858, aged 87 Owen was a Welsh social reformer and pioneer of the cooperative movement, known for his model industrial community at New Lanark. His ideas influenced early trade unionism and utopian socialism across Britain.
• 1771 Battle of Alamance Royal militia crushes the Regulator uprising in North Carolina On 16 May 1771, colonial militia led by Royal Governor William Tryon defeated several thousand Regulators protesting corrupt local officials and unfair taxation in North Carolina. The battle ended the War of the Regulation, and several captured Regulators were later executed for treason. Some historians view it as an early precursor to the American Revolution.