Editing 1671 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[Criminal Ordinance of 1670]], the first attempt at a uniform code of criminal procedure in France, goes into effect after having been passed on August 26, 1670.
* [[January 5]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Salher]] is fought in India as the first major confrontation between the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] and the [[Mughal Empire]], with the Maratha Army of 40,000 infantry and cavalry under the command of General [[Prataprao Gujar]] defeating a larger Mughal force led by General [[Diler Khan]].<ref>''Sharad Pawar, the Maratha Legacy'', ed. by S. R. Bakshi et al., (APH Publishing Corporation, 1998) p. 12</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; The ballet ''[[Psyché (play)|Psyché]]'', with music composed by [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], premieres before the royal court of King [[Louis XIV]] at the [[Théâtre des Tuileries]] in [[Paris]].
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[Henry Morgan's Panama expedition]] – the city of [[Panamá Viejo|Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá]], founded more than 150 years earlier at the [[Isthmus of Panama]] by Spanish settlers and the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Ocean, is destroyed by the [[Wales|Welsh]] pirate [[Henry Morgan]].  The last surviving original structures are now part of [[Panama City]], capital of the Central American nation of [[Panama]].
* [[February 1]] &ndash; The Tsar [[Alexis of Russia]] marries [[Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina]], who gives birth 16 months later to the future [[Peter the Great]].
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The [[Ortenau]] meteorite lands in Germany.
* [[March 3]] &ndash; ''[[Pomone (opera)|Pomone]]'', written by [[Robert Cambert]] and considered by modern scholars to be the first [[French language|French]] [[opera]], is given its first performance.  Using innovative costumes, and machinery for special stage effects, the premiere performed by the [[Académie d'Opéra]] at the [[Salle de la Bouteille]] theater in Paris is a success.<ref>"Cambert, Robert", by Christina Bashford, in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' (Macmillan, 1992) pp. 696–698</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The [[Danish West India Company]], a charter ship company whose operations include [[human trafficking]] of African slaves to the Western Hemisphere by its Danish Africa Company subsidiary, is founded.<ref>Waldemar Westergaard, ''The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754): With a Supplementary Chapter, 1755-1917'' (Macmillan, 1917) pp. 31–32</ref>
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[List of European tornadoes and tornado outbreaks#Pre-20th century|A tornado kills more than 600 people]] in the city of [[Cádiz]] in [[Spain]].<ref>Esteban Mira Caballos, ''Las Armadas del Imperio: Poder y hegemonía en tiempo de los Austrias'' (La Esfera de los Libros, S.L.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bogdanantonescu.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/23/deadly-european-tornadoes|title=Deadly European Tornadoes (1091–2013)|website=B. Antonescu|date=November 14, 2014 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Sabine baronets]] title is created in England for John Sabine.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; England's [[Royal Navy]] launches its first warship to have a frame reinforced by iron bars rather than an all wooden ship, an innovation by naval architect [[Anthony Deane (mayor)|Anthony Deane]].  The state of the art, 102-gun ship is commissioned on January 18, 1672, as the flagship for Admiral [[Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich|Edward Montagu]] but is sunk less than five months later in the [[Battle of Solebay]].  Iron-framed ships are not attempted again for almost 50 years.
* [[March]] &ndash; In the [[Battle of Saraighat]] in India, fought in mid-March, General [[Lachit Borphukan]] of the [[Ahom kingdom]], located in what is now the Indian state of [[Assam]] defeats a larger force of [[Mughal Empire]] troops on the outskirts of what is now [[Guwahati]].