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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...

Alfred-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1781 at Portsmouth. A year after her launch she took part in the Battle of the...

Frederick Henry Charles of Prussia (German: Friedrich Heinrich Karl; 30 December 1781, Berlin - 12 July 1846, Rome) was a Prussian prince and army officer. Henry...

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

Richard Arkwright (30 September 1781 – 28 March 1832) was an English politician. He was the oldest son of Richard Arkwright (died 1843) of Willersley Castle...

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...

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

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

The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events. March 13 – William Herschel observes Uranus (although initially recording it...

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...

signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after Maryland joined the other states in ratifying them. In November 1781, following ratification of the articles...

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

Philip Meadows (1708-1781) was Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park (1761-1781). He was the third son of Sir Philip Meadowes and Dorothy, sister of Hugh Boscawen...

launched by William Barnard at Barnard's Thames Yard in Deptford on 11 April 1781. Africa was a 64-gun third-rate Inflexible-class ship of the line designed...

Louis Joseph Xavier François (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789) was Dauphin of France as the second child and first son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette...

William Aislabie (1700 – 17 May 1781) of Studley Royal, North Yorkshire was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for...

William Ord (2 January 1781 – 28 July 1855) was an English Whig politician and landowner, the son of William Ord and Eleanor Brandling. He inherited estates...

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...

before being consolidated with the 1st Rhode Island Regiment in 1781. In February 1781, the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment was combined with the remnants 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...

one account was a French privateer sloop commissioned in French Guiana in 1781. Another account has her as a Dutch merchant vessel purchased into service...

campaign (1777–1778) Yorktown campaign (1781) Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (1778–1781) Southern theater of the American...

Events from the year 1781 in France Monarch – Louis XVI 6 January – Battle of Jersey May – Invasion of Tobago 12 December – Battle of Ushant Messier 87...

Events in the year 1781 in Iceland. Monarch: Christian VII Governor of Iceland: Lauritz Andreas Thodal Tjöruhúsið, Neðstikaupstaður was built in Ísafjörður...

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

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 Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 is a large oil painting executed in 1783 by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the...

Tupac Amaru II (born José Gabriel Condorcanqui, c. 1742 – 18 May 1781) was an Indigenous cacique who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in...

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...