* 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 – 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.

The Protestant citizens received the right to establish parishes according to the 1781 Patent of Toleration by Emperor Joseph II.

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.

In 1781, Joseph's Patent of Toleration extended freedom of worship to Lutherans and Calvinists.

* Thomas Morton ( shipwright ) ( 1781 – 1832 ), inventor of the Patent slip

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

In 1850 the quarter was renamed " Josefstadt " ( Joseph's City ) after Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor who emancipated Jews with the Toleration Edict in 1781.

To have a separate organisation focused on providing standardised surgical education became one of the goals of the society and they lobbied for a Royal Charter, in 1781 presenting the lord lieutenant a petition to be incorporated separately from the barbers.

By mid-1776, a number of ships, ranging up to and including the thirteen frigates approved by Congress, were under construction, but their effectiveness was limited ; they were completely outmatched by the mighty Royal Navy, and nearly all were captured or sunk by 1781.

Only eight frigates made it to sea and their effectiveness was limited ; they were completely outmatched by the mighty Royal Navy, and nearly all were captured or sunk by 1781.

; 1775 – 1781: American Revolution ; guaranteed the freedom of religion.

In 1781 – 82 he extended full legal freedom to serfs.

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 ).

" The Jury agreed and in 1781 she won her freedom.

As a relatively young lawyer, Sedgwick with Tapping Reeve pled the case of Brom and Bett vs. Ashley ( 1781 ), an early " freedom suit ", in county court for the slaves Elizabeth Freeman ( known as Bett ) and Brom.

In the Holy Roman Empire, a measure instituted by Joseph II in 1781 had permitted serfs freedom of movement.

In 1781 Reeve, worked with Theodore Sedgwick to represent Elizabeth Freeman ( known as Bett ), a slave in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in a legal bid for her freedom.

In 1781 the New York legislature offered a financial incentive to slaveholders who assigned their slaves to military service, and promised freedom at war's end for the slaves.

Her county court case, Brom and Bett v. Ashley, decided in August 1781, was cited as a precedent in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appeal review of Quock Walker's " freedom suit ".

Less than a decade later, the Ashleys ' slave, Elizabeth " Mum Bett " Freeman won her freedom under the new state constitution through a celebrated 1781 Massachusetts state court battle.

His Edict of tolerance of 1781 established religious freedom.