What is 1781?
{{Year nav|1781}} {{Year in various calendars|1781}} {{Year article header|1781}} == Events == * [[March 13]] – [[Uranus]]. * End of the [[American Revolutionary War]] == Births == * [[January 26]] – [[Achim von Arnim]], German writer (d. [[1831]]) * [[January 30]] – [[Adelbert von Chamisso]], German writer (d. [[1838]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec]], French physician and inventor (d. [[1826]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Rebecca Gratz]], American educator and philanthropist (d. [[1869]]) * [[March 13]] – [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]], German architect and painter (d. [[1841]]) * [[June 9]]– [[George Stephenson]], English engineer (d. [[1848]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Simeon Poisson|Siméon-Denis Poisson]], French mathematician and physicist (d. [[1840]]) * [[July 6]] – [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]], English founder of Singapore (d. [[1826]]) * July 6 – [[John D. Sloat]], American naval officer (d. [[1867]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Mauro Giuliani]], Italian composer (d. [[1828]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Eugène de Beauharnais]], French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife [[Josephine de Beauharnais|Josephine]] (d. [[1824]]) *[[September 6]] – [[Anton Diabelli]], Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (d. [[1858]]) *[[October 1]] – [[James Lawrence]], U.S. Navy officer (d. [[1813]]) *[[November 6]] – [[Lucy Aikin]], English writer (d. [[1864]]) *[[November 20]] – [[Karl Friedrich Eichhorn]], German jurist (d. [[1854]]) *[[November 29]] – [[Andrés Bello]], Venezuelan poet, lawmaked, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. [[1865]]) *[[November 30]] – [[Alexander Berry]], Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (d. [[1873]]) * [[December 11]] – Sir [[David Brewster]], Scottish physicist (d. [[1868]]) *[[William Williams|William Williams of Wern]], minister (d. [[1840]]) [[Category:1781| ]]