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1781 Calendar

1781 Calendar

January
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 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
February
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728   
March
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
April
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     
May
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
June
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
     12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
July
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031    
August
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 
September
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      
October
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031   
November
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930 
December
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

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1781 Historical Event(s)

  •  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.

Who Were Born On 1781?

  •  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)