1781

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1778 1779 1780 – 1781 – 1782 1783 1784

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1781 Media

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  October 19: Britain's General Cornwallis surrenders to General Washington at Yorktown, conceding American victory in war.

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  March 9: Siege of Pensacola

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  March 13: Uranus is discovered.

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  September 28: The Siege of Yorktown begins.

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  September 5: Battle of the Chesapeake

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  Lord Swaminarayan writing the Shikshapatri

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  George StephensonPD tekening van UT Library, ingekleurd naar bestaand schilderij

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  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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  Condorcanqui

1781 (MDCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1781st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 781st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1781, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• March 13 – Uranus.
• End of the American Revolutionary War

Births

• January 26 – Achim von Arnim, German writer (d. 1831)
• January 30 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
• February 17 – Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician and inventor (d. 1826)
• March 4 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect and painter (d. 1841)
• June 9– George Stephenson, English engineer (d. 1848)
• June 21 – Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
• July 6 – Thomas Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
• July 6 – John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867)
• July 27 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
• September 3 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Josephine (d. 1824)
• September 6 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (d. 1858)
• October 1 – James Lawrence, U.S. Navy officer (d. 1813)
• November 6 – Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864)
• November 20 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
• November 29 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaked, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1865)
• November 30 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
• December 11 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
• William Williams of Wern, minister (d. 1840)