* 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 – Bhagwan Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader ( d. 1830 )

* 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 – 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.

* John Young ( naval officer ) ( c. 1740 – 1781 ), American sailor

* Thomas, Douglas H. John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1781 – 1782.

* John Walker ( inventor ) ( 1781 – 1859 ), English chemist and inventor of the friction match in 1827

* August 27 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman ( d. 1781 )

His father, a Baptist minister nicknamed " Sir John ," died four years after his birth ( 1781 ).

John Stanley, later Lord Stanley of Alderley, saw her in 1781, and noted that she was an attractive girl with curly, fair hair.

Surrender of Cornwallis to French ( left ) and American ( right ) troops, at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, by John Trumbull.

* John Cabot House ( 1781 )

Like many other towns, this one went through name changes before its incorporation in 1781: " Saville " in 1768, " Corey's Town ", and then " Wendell ", for one of the Masonian Proprietors, John Wendell.

* John M. Berrien ( 1781 – 1856 ), served as United States Attorney General and represented Georgia in the United States Senate.

In the summer of 1781, John Carpenter built Carpenter's Fort or Carpenter's Station as it was sometimes called, a fortified house above the mouth of Short Creek on the Ohio side of the Ohio River, near present day Marietta.

Among these early settlers were Timothy Reagan ( c. 1750-1830 ), John Ownby, Jr. ( 1781 – 1869 ), and Henry Bohanon ( 1760 – 1842 ).

* Mary Boggs ( born about 1781 ), who married John Engeart.

It was asserted by Sir John Sinclair in his Husbandry of Scotland to have been introduced to Scotland around 1781 – 1782.

William John Burchell ( 1781 – 1863 ) was particularly scathing " As to the miserable thing called a map, which has been prefixed to Mr. Barrow ’ s quarto, I perfectly agree with Professor Lichtenstein, that it is so defective that it can seldom be found of any use.

A son and a daughter, Daniel ( 1751 – 1754 ) and Frances ( 1753 – 1757 ), died in childhood, but two other children, John ( Jacky ) Parke Custis ( 1754 – 1781 ) and Martha (" Patsy ") Parke Custis ( 1756 – 1773 ) survived to young adulthood.

* John Mitchell ( Pennsylvania ) ( 1781 – 1849 ), United States Congressman from Pennsylvania

* John Mitchell ( Hull politician ) ( c. 1781 – 1859 ), Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Hull

Writing to a friend John Roget in 1781 he said of Howard, " the author .. made a visit to every prison and house of correction in England with invincible perseverance and courage ; for some of the prisons were so infected by diseases and putrid air that he was obliged to hold a cloth steeped in vinegar to his nostrils .. and to change his clothes the moment he returned.

On 17 July 1781, Fuller's sister Elizabeth married Sir John Palmer Acland, a grandson of Sir Hugh Acland, 6th Baronet MP, in St. Marylebone in London.

* John Taylor ( English publisher ) ( 1781 – 1864 ), British publisher and Egypt scholar

The White-bellied Sea Eagle was first described by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, although John Latham had made notes on the species in 1781, from a specimen obtained in February 1780 at Princes Island off the westernmost cape of Java during Captain Cook's last voyage.

His son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was attending Phillips Exeter Academy, the college preparatory school founded in 1781 by Dr. John Phillips.