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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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

1764-1781. It was created after the abolition of Cossack Hetmanate and was governed by Pyotr Rumyantsev. With another administrative reform of 1781 the...

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...

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...

(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...

John Taylor (31 July 1781 – 5 July 1864) was an English publisher, essayist, and writer. He is noted as the publisher of the poets John Keats and John...

In the Jahriyya revolt (Chinese: 蘇四十三起義) of 1781 sectarian violence between two suborders of the Naqshbandi Sufis, the Jahriyya Sufi Muslims and their...

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...

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...

William Westall ARA (12 October 1781 – 22 January 1850) was a British landscape artist best known as one of the first artists to work in Australia. Westall...

Testosterone buciclate (developmental code names 20 Aet-1, CDB-1781) is a synthetic, injected anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS) which was never marketed...

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

Events from the year 1781 in Russia Monarch – Catherine II Austro-Russian alliance (1781) Greek Church and Greek School (Taganrog) Osinsky Uyezd Perm...

Act 1896. (Some sources may refer to the Act as the Sunday Observance Act 1781, this being the year in which it was passed.) Licensing Act 2003 (Commencement...