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1781 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1781st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 781st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1781, the ...
July 6 – American Revolution – Battle of Green Spring July 9–24 – American Revolution – Francisco's Fight July 29 – American Revolution – Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe: A Tory force under David Fanning attacks Phillip Alston's smaller force of Whigs at Alston's home in Cumberland County, North Carolina (in present-day Moore County, North Carolina).
Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volumes 2 and 3. [2] John Wood, the Younger's pattern book A Series of Plans for Cottages or Habitations of the Labourer. The collection of children's poetry Mother Goose's Melody. [8]
1781: The city of Los Angeles is founded by Spanish settlers. 1781: Immanuel Kant publishes his first critique: the Critique of Pure Reason. 1781–1785: Serfdom is abolished in the Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in 1848). 1783: Montgolfier brothers invent hot air balloon. 1783: Famine in Iceland, caused by the eruption of the Laki ...
Other events on October 19th in history: 1781: Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown effectively ending the American Revolution. 1985: The very first blockbuster store opened in Dallas, Texas. 1987 ...
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1781. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland .
The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774–1781. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299002046. Jensen, Merrill (1950). The New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9780930350147.
[g] American history books recount the legend that the British band played "The World Turn'd Upside Down", but the story may be apocryphal. [69] [70] Surrender of Cornwallis. At Yorktown, VA, Oct. 1781, Nathaniel Currier. D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Cornwallis refused to attend the surrender ceremony, claiming that he had an illness.