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...

Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730 – February 28, 1781) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, legislator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events. March 13 – William Herschel observes Uranus (although initially recording it...