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Events from the year 1781 in the United States. This year marked the beginning of government under the Articles of Confederation as well as the surrender of British armed forces in the American Revolution .
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 ...
1 January – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn. [2]3 February – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Capture of Sint Eustatius – British forces led by General John Vaughan and Admiral George Rodney take the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius, with only a few shots fired.
1800 – Library of Congress founded 1800 – Convention of 1800 ends the Quasi-War 1800 – U.S. presidential election, 1800: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tie in the Electoral College.
1781. January 26 – Achim von Arnim, German novelist and poet (d. 1831) [122] January 30 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German poet and scientist (d. 1838) [123]
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 ...
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.
By December 1780, the American Revolutionary War's North American theatres had reached a critical point. The Continental Army had suffered major defeats earlier in the year, with its southern armies either captured or dispersed in the loss of Charleston and the Battle of Camden in the south, while the armies of George Washington and the British commander-in-chief for North America, Sir Henry ...