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1781 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1781 – American Revolutionary War: 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne’s command rebel against the Continental Army’s winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
•  January 5, 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
•  January 6, 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
•  January 17, 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
•  February 18, 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
•  March 13, 1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
•  September 28, 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.
•  October 17, 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
•  October 19, 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’ sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
•  November 29, 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

•  January 20, 1781 – Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
•  January 22, 1781 – François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
•  January 30, 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
•  March 4, 1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
•  March 12, 1781 – Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
•  March 17, 1781 – Ebenezer Elliott, British poet (d. 1849)
•  June 9, 1781 – George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d. 1848)
•  June 21, 1781 – Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
•  September 23, 1781 – Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860)
•  November 30, 1781 – Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)