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    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...
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  • The year 1781 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. Brizlee Tower, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, a folly...
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    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...
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    Events from the year 1781 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Province of Quebec: Frederick Haldimand Governor of Nova Scotia: Commodore-Governor...
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    Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 – February 28, 1781) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, legislator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1781. March 27 – George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke, enclosing examples of his...
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    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...
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  • 1780s BC (redirect from 1781 BC)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation. These states are presented...
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  • The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events. March 13 – William Herschel observes Uranus (although initially recording it...
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    Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation between 1781 and 1789. Benjamin Lincoln and later Henry Knox held the position. When Washington...
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    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...
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  • 1764–1781. It was created after the abolition of Cossack Hetmanate and was governed by Pyotr Rumyantsev. With another administrative reform of 1781 the...
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    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...
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    the Confederation created the Department of Foreign Affairs. On August 10, 1781, Congress selected Robert R. Livingston, a delegate from New York, as the...
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    town of Bourne were authorised by an act of Parliament obtained on 29 March 1781, which suggested that the river had previously been navigable, but had become...
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    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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    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...
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  • and commanders fought at the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781. LTG = Lieutenant General MG = Major General BG = Brigadier General Col =...
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    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...
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    Congress of the Confederation established the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1781 and created the office of secretary of foreign affairs. After the Constitution...
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    American Revolutionary War (category Conflicts in 1781)
    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...
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    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...
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  • Thomas Jones, Governor (1780) George Bruere the younger, Governor (1780–1781) William Browne, Governor (1782–1788) Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant governor...
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  • campaign (1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781) Southern theater of the American...
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  • Events from the year 1781 in Austria Monarch – Joseph II - Patent of Toleration - Austro-Russian alliance (1781) - Serfdom Patent (1781) - Theater in der...
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