Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1781. 1781 (MDCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...

Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 – February 28, 1781) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, legislator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence...

Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia. It was a decisive...

Jubilate, and the opera Idomeneo, among other works. While visiting Vienna in 1781, Mozart was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He stayed in Vienna, where...

to the middle chronology Sumu-la-El, king of Babylon from around 1817 to 1781 BC Nur-Adad, king of Larsa from 1801 to 1785 BC Hammurabi, king of Babylon...

Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation. These states are presented...

Little Russia Governorate may refer to: Little Russia Governorate (1764–1781) Little Russia Governorate (1796–1802) Little Russia Governorate-General [uk;...

off the coast of Brittany, on 12 December 1781, as part of the American Revolutionary War. On 10 December 1781, a French convoy sailed from Brest with reinforcements...

John Smith (July 16, 1781 – May 23, 1854), known as Uncle John, was an early leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Smith...

Vere was a British ship launched in 1774 as Fanny, and was renamed in 1781. She spent much of her career, under either name, as a West Indiaman. In 1794...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1781. March 27 – George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke, enclosing examples of his...

created Viscount Conyngham, in Ireland, also in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1781 he was made Baron Conyngham, of Mount Charles in the County of Donegal, with...

Pacific under Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. She was built in 1781–82 at Bayonne as the flûte Portfaix for the French Navy. In May 1785 she...

Events from the year 1781 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand Governor of Nova Scotia: Commodore-Governor...

The siege of Pensacola, fought from March 9 to May 10, 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of West Florida during the Gulf Coast Campaign of...

Thomas Watson (1750–1781) was a fine engraver in mezzotint and in stipple. His early prints were published in alliance with the book and printsellers Samuel...

Adur between Shoreham and Lancing. Before the building of the bridge in 1781–2, the Adur presented the one major obstacle to east-west communication along...

West Point, New York, 1780–1781 Pennsylvania Line at Jockey Hollow, Morristown, New Jersey, 1780–1781. Newburgh, New York, 1781–1782 New Jersey Brigade at...

The Espérance was a Rhône-class scow of the French Navy, launched in 1781 and later reclassified as a frigate. She earned fame as one of the ships of Bruni...

besieged by a Franco-American force in Yorktown in September and October 1781. Cornwallis was forced to surrender in October. The British wars with France...

alliance signed by the Habsburg monarchy and the Russian Empire in May–June 1781. Russia was previously allied with Prussia (Russo-Prussian Alliance). However...

Nantes that the French Royal Navy purchased and commissioned as a fluyt. In 1781, she was reclassified as a fireship and renamed Pulvérisateur, and served...

invasion of Menorca was therefore planned during the first few months of 1781, largely by Don Luis Berton de los Blats, Duque de Crillon (or rather, Duc...

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Alexander Stewart (1699 or 1700 – 2 April 1781) was an Irish landowner who grew rich by inheriting a fortune from Robert Cowan, a former governor of Bombay...

Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1699–1781) was a German abbess. She was the favorite of the queen of Denmark, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach...

detached light infantry companies from several infantry regiments in September 1781. Its two brigades were made up of three battalions each, though the second...

The year 1781 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Brizlee Tower, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, a folly...

(1778), 19 Geo. 3. c. 1 (1779), 20 Geo. 3. c. 5 (1780), 21 Geo. 3. c. 2 (1781), 22 Geo. 3. c. 1 (1782). Statutes at Large, vol. X (Index), London: Eyre...

the Confederation created the Department of Foreign Affairs. On August 10, 1781, Congress selected Robert R. Livingston, a delegate from New York, as the...