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by
Gorgonzola
Mon Oct 30 2000 at 3:35:00
Born in 1781:
Bohemian
mathematician
Bernard Bolzano
.
Italian
guitar
composer
Mauro Giuliani
.
French
mathematician
Siméon Poisson
.
Scottish
physicist
David Brewster
.
British
inventor
George Stephenson
.
English
sculptor
Francis Chantrey
.
English
architect
Robert Smirke
.
Indian
religious leader
Shri Swaminarayan
.
German
philosopher
Johann Meckel
.
German poet
Adalbert von Chamisso
.
American architect
Robert Mills
.
Richard M. Johnson
, 9th
Vice-President of the United States
(under
Martin Van Buren
).
German architect
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
.
Died in 1781:
German philosopher
Gotthold Lessing
.
Events of 1781:
The
Austrian Empire
abolishes
serfdom
and grants
freedom of the press
and
religious tolerance
.
War of American Independence:
Political activity:
(March 1)
Maryland
is the last state to ratify the
Articles of Confederation
(passed by the
Continental Congress
in
1777
, after the other states relinquish their western land claims.
(May)
Prussia
joins the
League of Armed Neutrality
.
Military activity:
(January 1) The
Pennsylvania
contingent of the
Continental
Army mutinies over the conditions they are forced to live in. However, when British General
Henry Clinton
sends messengers to them, the messengers are turned over.
George Washington
appeals to
Congress
to improve their conditions.
(January 5) The government of
Virginia
is forced to flee
Richmond
as an army under
Benedict Arnold
enters the city.
(January 17) The
Battle of Cowpens
in
South Carolina
. British colonel
Banastre Tarleton
is defeated by General
Daniel Morgan
. Tarleton himself escapes.
(January 20) The
New Jersey
contingent of the Continental Army mutinies. This time, Washington has two of the mutineers' leaders hanged.
(February 3) The British under Admiral Rodney capture the
Dutch
-held
Caribbean
island
St. Eustasius
. He confiscates a large amount of materiel that British merchants were selling to American rebels. Because of this, he is plagued with
lawsuits
for the rest of his life.
(January-March) British General Lord
Cornwallis
' supply lines are stretched precariously thin as General
Nathaniel Greene
leads him on a merry chase through
South Carolina
and
North Carolina
.
(March 15) Cornwallis catches up with Greene. At the
Battle of Guilford Court House
in
North Carolina
Greene retreats but the British suffer far more casualties. Cornwallis falls back to
Wilmington, NC
,
North Carolina
to regroup.
(April) French Admiral
de Grasse
captures
Tobago
from the British.
(May)
Louis XVI
dismisses his war minister
Necker
.
(May 10)
Pensacola
, the last holdout in
West Florida
, finally surrenders to the Spanish governor of
Louisiana
,
Bernardo de Galvez
.
(June 4) Banastre Tarleton raids
Monticello
but Virginia Governor
Thomas Jefferson
escapes.
(June 5) The British surrender
Augusta
,
Georgia
to
Richard Henry Lee
.
(June 6) Washington and
Rochambeau
prepare for a combined assault on
Manhattan
Island.
(August 28) Militia defeat a company of Loyalists at
Elizabethtown
,
North Carolina
.
(September) Cornwallis defeats Greene at the
Battle of Eutaw
, then moves into
Virginia
.
(September 28) Washington, Rochambeau, and fresh
French
troops brought by Admiral De Grasse surround Cornwallis' army at
Yorktown
,
Virginia
.
(October 17) Lord Cornwallis offers a white flag. By October 19, British troops, accorting to the terms of surrender, give up their arms while their band plays
The World Turned Upside Down
.
(October 19) A British fleet leaves New York to relieve Cornwallis, too late.
The
Ancient Order of Druids
founded.
Thomas Jefferson (anonymously) publishes his
Notes on the State of Virginia
which contains his opinion of the inferiority of black people and his feeling that
slavery
should never be abolished.
Yuma
Indians destroy the Mission La Purisima Concepcion, the present site of
Yuma
,
Arizona
.
The survivors of the Yuma attack found El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de
Los Angeles
de Porciúncula.
Immanuel Kant
publishes his
Critique of Pure Reason
.
Tupac Amaru
is captured, then
drawn and quartered
in
Cuzco
.
Frederick Herschel
discovers a new planet, the first discovered by telescope, and decidedly smashing
Aristotelian cosmology
. He originally calls it
George's Star
after King
George III
, but it is now known as
Uranus
.
1780
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1781
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1782
1782
1780
George Stephenson
drawing and quartering
Edward Capell
USS Yorktown
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount of Saye and Sele
French military victories
Charles Pinckney
Ancient Order of Hibernians
American History
El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula
The World Turned Upside Down
Articles of Confederation
American Civil War
Immanuel Kant
Molybdenum
Martin Van Buren
Uranus
Bohemian
Illuminati
Math
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