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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown. Lincoln served from 1781 to 1783 as the first United States Secretary of War. While Secretary of War...

commissioners, a second act of Parliament, the River Stower Navigation Act 1781 (21 Geo. 3. c. 75) was obtained. New commissioners included Golding Constable...