What happened in 1781?
86 recorded events in 1781, including 35 in wars & conflicts, 33 in people and 7 in architecture & engineering.
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Wars & Conflicts 35
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Siege of Yorktown
Siege, part of American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Cowpens
1781 battle
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Siege of Pensacola
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Guilford Court House
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Eutaw Springs
1781 battle of the American Revolution
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Battle of Jersey
Battle fought on 6 January 1781 in St. Helier, Jersey
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Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
1781 battle
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Battle of Groton Heights
Battle of the American Revolutionary War 1781
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Battle of Green Spring
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Siege of Negapatam
1781 siege during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
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Battle of Mobile
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Blandford
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Pollilur
1781 battle of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
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Battle of Porto Novo
1781 battle
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Lochry's Defeat
1781 battle in Indiana, USA
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Battle of Sholinghur
1781 battle of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
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Battle of Spencer's Ordinary
1781 American Revolutionary War battle
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Siege of Ninety-Six
Siege (1781) in the American Revolutionary War
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Capture of Sint Eustatius
1781 battle
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Siege of Fort Watson
1781 siege
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Battle of Johnstown
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Cowan's Ford
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Lindley's Mill
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Siege of Augusta
1781 siege during the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Combapata
1781 battle
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Battle of Fort Slongo
1781 battle of the American Revolution
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Battle of the House in the Horseshoe
Battle during the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Wetzell's Mill
1781 battle
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Battle of Torrence's Tavern
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Pine's Bridge
1781 battle
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Siege of Fort Motte
1781 siege
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Battle of Pucacasa
1781 battle
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Sieege of Cusco (1781)
1781 siege
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Battle of Elizabethtown
1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Raft Swamp
1781 battle in the American Revolutionary War
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People 33
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Johann Anton Güldenstädt died
Baltic German scientist (1745-1781)
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Tobias Furneaux died
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1735-1781)
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Bunsan died
King of Vientiane
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Exupère Joseph Bertin died
Anatomist (1712-1781)
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Abram Petrovich Gannibal died
African-born Russian general and military engineer (c.1696–1781)
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George Bogle died
Scottish adventurer and diplomat
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Francisco Garcés died
Explorer, missionary (1738-1781)
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Fernando Rivera y Moncada died
Spanish explorer
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Giovanni Battista Beccaria died
Italian physicist
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William Lewis died
English chemist and physician
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Guillaume Le Blond died
French mathematician and military historian
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Johann Kies died
German astronomer and mathematician
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Charles Labelye died
Swiss mathematician and bridge engineer
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François-César Le Tellier de Courtanvaux died
French astronomer
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Shlomo of Chelme died
Senior rabbi in Chelm
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Thomas Crofts died
Welsh explorer
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Anton Zimmermann died
Austrian composer (1741-1781)
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Petter Stenborg died
Swedish actor-singer
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Antonio Besozzi died
Italian oboist
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Françoise Gravillon died
Dutch theater manager
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Adelbert von Chamisso born
Born in Châlons-en-Champagne. German poet and botanist (1781–1838).
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Siméon Denis Poisson born
Born in Pithiviers. French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840).
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Ludwig Achim von Arnim born
Born in Palais Wrangel. German poet and novelist.
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Bernard Bolzano born
Born in Prague. Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848).
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David Brewster born
Born in Jedburgh. Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868).
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Thomas Stamford Raffles born
Born in Jamaica. British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826).
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Eugène de Beauharnais born
Born in Paris. French statesman and military officer (1781–1824).
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Andrés Bello born
Born in Caracas. Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist (1781-1865).
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Johann Baptist von Spix born
Born in Höchstadt an der Aisch. German naturalist (1781-1826).
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Karl Christian Friedrich Krause born
Born in Eisenberg. German philosopher.
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Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este born
Born in Milan. Austrian archduke (1781-1850).
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Adolphe Marbot born
Born in Altillac. French general (1781–1844).
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Fernando Rivera y Moncada died
Died in Colorado River. Spanish explorer.
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Science & Technology 1
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Botanical Garden of Vilnius University
Botanic garden in Lithuania
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Exploration & Discovery 1
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Rowten Pot
Cave in the parish of Thorton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, UK
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Religion & Belief Systems 4
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Jezzar Pasha Mosque
Mosque in Acre, Northern Israel
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St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson
Church in Kherson, Ukraine
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Emirgan Mosque
Mosque in İstanbul, Turkey
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Synagogue in Radnice
Synagogue in Radnice (Religion & Belief Systems).
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Economy & Trade 3
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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
Japanese pharmaceutical company
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Asprey
Luxury goods company
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Rendbjerg Teglværk
Danish brickworks
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Social Movements & Revolutions 1
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Jahriyya revolt
1781 rebellion in Qinghai and Gansu , China
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Architecture & Engineering 7
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Primate's Palace
Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Armenian Church
Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Johann Pálffy Palace
Building in Bratislava, Slovakia
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Palazzo Comitini
Building in Palermo, Italy
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Hov Church
Church building in Søndre Land, Innlandet, Norway
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chiesa madre
Church building in Regalbuto, Italy
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St Bartholomew's Church, Longnor
Church in Staffordshire Moorlands, United Kingdom
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Sports & Entertainment 1
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Leopoldstädter Theater
Former theatre in Vienna, Austria
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