* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

The movement was particularly dominated by François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ( 1727 – 1781 ).

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British and French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.

His sister was Lucy Aikin ( 1781 – 1864 ), a historical writer.

* 1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.

* 1858 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer ( b. 1781 )

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

Le Plat, Monumentorum ad historicam Concilii Tridentini collectio ( 7 vols., Leuven, 1781 – 87 ).

* Salons, critique d ' art ( 1759 – 1781 )

* Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes, in collaboration with Raynal ( 1772 – 1781 )

* 1781 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist ( d. 1868 )

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant – A

* 1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer ( d. 1781 )

* 1781 – John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, British noble and officer ( d. 1844 )

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.

* 1781 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer ( b. 1737 )

* 1781 – Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist ( d. 1826 )

* 1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opened his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa ( present-day Ghana ).

In 1775 – 77, and again in 1781 he led his men against the main British forces.

George Stephenson ( 9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848 ) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives.

* 1830 – Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure ( b. 1781 )

Le Clerc Milfort in 1781 led a journey with hundreds of Creek Indians, to a series of caverns near the Red River above the junction of the Mississippi river, according to Milfort the original Creek Indian ancestors are believed to have emerged out to the surface of the earth in ancient times from the caverns.

In September 1781, British forces and Indian allies, primarily Wyandot and Lenape, forced the Christian Indians and missionaries from the remaining Moravian villages.

* The Choice of Harlequin, or the Indian Chief ( 26 December 1781 Covent Garden, London )

General James Abercrombie or Abercromby ( 1706 – April 23, 1781 ) was a British Army general and commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War, best known for the disastrous British losses in the 1758 Battle of Carillon.

Permanent white settlement of the northern Alleghenies was facilitated by the explorations and stories of such noted Marylanders as the Indian fighter and trader Thomas Cresap ( 1702 – 90 ) and the backwoodsman and hunter Meshach Browning ( 1781 – 1859 ).

In 1779 he was promoted to the command of the sloop on the West Indian and North American stations, and in May 1781 he was advanced to post rank.

Los Angeles was founded in 1781 on a site southeast of Olvera Street near the Los Angeles River by a group of Spanish pobladores ( settlers ), consisting of 11 families — 44 men, women, and children, accompanied by a contingent of soldiers — who had set out from the nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel to establish a secular pueblo along the banks of the Porciúncula River at the Indian village of Yang-na.

While the British had suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Yorktown ( 1781 ), there had been no decisive defeat for their Indian allies in the Northwest Territories.

He was friendly with the local Native American people, and was appointed a United States Indian Agent in 1781 ( some say by George Washington ).

Brodhead marched into the Ohio Country and destroyed the Delaware Indian capital of Coshocton in April 1781, but this only made the Delawares more determined enemies and deprived Clark of badly needed men and supplies for the Detroit campaign.

In 1781 he successfully quelled the Quechan ( Yuma ) Indian revolt and temporarily reopened the Colorado River crossing of the Anza trail at Yuma, Arizona.

In 1781, during the Siege of Yorktown, the French West Indian fleet established a battery on the ruins of Fort George.

Jeremiah F. Evarts ( February 3, 1781 – May 10, 1831 ) was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.

In 1781, following a running battle between Indian forces and those of the colonists, Colonel Arthur Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel John Sevier and Martin addressed a letter to the Indian chiefs, warning them about their actions.

But 1781 onwards, South Indian classes dominated the regiment for most of the time, especially Deccani & Madrasi Muslims.

The tradition began in 1781, when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a Swiss clergyman, published Le Monde Primitif, a speculative study which included religious symbolism and its survival in the modern world.

Only an Edict of Toleration issued by Emperor Joseph II as late as 1781 put an end to religious repression.

The spread of education, the secularization of church lands, the reduction of the religious orders and the clergy in general to complete submission to the lay state, the issue of the Patent of Tolerance ( 1781 ) providing limited guarantee of freedom of worship, the promotion of unity by the compulsory use of the German language ( replacing Latin or in some instances local languages )— everything which from the point of view of 18th century philosophy, the Age of Enlightenment, appeared " reasonable "— were undertaken at once.

Giovanni Battista Beccaria ( 3 October 1716 – 27 May 1781 ), Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric.

Still seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity, in 1781 Elijah Craig's brother Lewis led an exodus of up to 600 people known as " The Travelling Church " ( composed of most of his congregation and many others, e. g., from Germantown ) from their prior location ( Spotsylvania, VA ) to the area of Virginia known as Kentucky ( the largest single group to so migrate ).

* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ), one of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment era, recognised as the world's first dramaturg, Germany's first dramatist and comedy playwright, champion for religious tolerance, friend of Moses Mendelssohn, critic for the Vossische Zeitung, translator and Shakespearean scholar.

* Johann Nikolaus Götz ( 1721 – 1781 ), German religious figure, writer and translator

His Edict of tolerance of 1781 established religious freedom.