The Articles took effect on March 1, 1781, when Maryland became the final state to ratify them.

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

It took Eisinga seven years to build his planetarium, which was completed in 1781.

When Major General Nathanael Greene took command in the South, Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee were ordered in January 1781 to attack Georgetown but were unsuccessful.

Fourteen battles took place in the area, including the Battle of Camden ( August 16, 1780 ) and the Battle of Hobkirk's Hill ( April 25, 1781 ).

He took part in public affairs at the beginning of the American Revolution, he was a member of the Massachusetts General Court ( Legislature ) from 1771 until 1775, a delegate to the Provincial congress from 1774 until 1775, and a member of the Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution in 1781.

On 13 August 1780, he was set apart to the ministry, but he still continued his studies at the academy ; and in 1781, in accordance with the provisions of an exhibition which he held, he entered King's College, University of Aberdeen, where he took the degree of master of arts in March 1785.

After they proved to be ineffective, he took a larger force of 11 ships in March 1781, and fought a tactically inconclusive battle with the British fleet of Marriot Arbuthnot at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

The British took Negapatam after three weeks of siege in October and November 1781.

Before the British invasion of Virginia forced the temporary closure of the College of William and Mary and disbandment of the Phi Beta Kappa there early in 1781, Elisha Parmelee, an alumnus of Yale College and Harvard College, passed through Williamsburg and took charters from the Phi Beta Kappa to establish branches of the society at these schools.

He became a scholar of Trinity in 1780, won the Craven university scholarship in 1781, and took his degree of BA in 1782, as third senior prime, obtaining soon afterwards the first Chancellor's Medal for classical studies.

Several philosophers and historians of science have, however, argued that Popper's definition of theory as a set of falsifiable statements is wrong because, as Philip Kitcher has pointed out, if one took a strictly Popperian view of " theory ", observations of Uranus when first discovered in 1781 would have " falsified " Newton's celestial mechanics.

The battle took place near the site of the 1781 siege of Yorktown, the final battle of the American Revolutionary War in the east.

The Townshends took up residence and the castle was much improved by them in 1781.

He took his seat in the House of Commons in January 1781.

Also, the decisive battle of the American Revolution, the siege of Yorktown in 1781, took place on the Virginia Peninsula.

For example, the Zong, a British slaver, took too many slaves on a voyage to the New World in 1781.

The regiment also took part in number of battles under the command of Lord Cornwallis between 1780-81, as well as taking part in another engagement near Camden in April 1781, as part of a force under the command of General Rawdon.

Dickinson took office on November 13, 1781 and served until November 7, 1782.

He was educated at the military schools of Vendôme and Paris ; he entered the navy and took part in various engagements of the years 1781 – 1782.

In 1781 he received a commission in the Hanoverian guards, and as a captain took part in the campaigns of 1793-1795 in the Low Countries, distinguishing himself particularly on the Lys in command of light infantry.

There Sir Eyre Coote took command of the army, and in 1781 won a major victory against Hyder Ali at Porto Novo ( Parangipettai ), where Munro was in command of the right division.

He became vicar of Harbury in 1746 and shortly after Chesterton both in Warwickshire followed by Snitterfield in 1754 where he took up residence until his death in 1781.

In 1781, the two composite Foot Guard battalions took part in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.

In his second chapter on the town of Southeast, he wrote: " The land now embraced within the limits of the village of Brewster consists of a farm which was sold by the commissioners of forfeiture to Peleg Bailey, in 1781.

The town was chartered in 1781, with this locale becoming the central village ; this is not an incorporated village, and thus is indistinguishable from the town at large except for the concentration of residences and businesses found here.

The village square, the Protestant church of 1782, the former spa hotel Neuer Ochsen of 1796 and the Krone inn of 1781 are listed as heritage sites of national significance.

The village is home to several Swiss heritage sites of national significance including the village square, the Protestant church of 1782, the former spa hotel Neuer Ochsen of 1796 and the Krone inn of 1781.

At the council of rabbis held in the village of Zelva, Trakai Voivodeship, in 1781, it was resolved to uproot Hasidism.

Known since the 16th century as the village of Voskresenskoye, it was later renamed Voskresensk, granted town status in 1781, and became the seat of an uyezd.

On May 22, 1781, Greene laid siege to the fortified village.

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.

* 1781 King George III rode through the village returning from a stag hunt.

Probably built around 1781, it was named Stocks Mill after the village stocks that stood nearby.

In response, in September 1781, Wyandots and Delawares from Sandusky forcibly removed the Christian Delawares and the missionaries to a new village ( Captive Town ) on the Sandusky River.

Stephenson was born in Wylam in Northumberland in 1781, but he lived the last 10 years of his life in Chesterfield, often bringing visitors to Crich to see the mineral railway and take refreshment in one of the village inns.

In April 1781, at the Ohio village of Gnadenhütten, Buckongahelas warned the Lenape that an American militia from Pennsylvania was likely to execute any Indians in their path and would not pay attention to whether they were Christians.

Originally from Sussex, the Levett family ( whose name derives from the village of Livet in Normandy ) retained ownership of the house, as well as other lands in the Kew complex, until October 13, 1781, when the Dutch House was purchased by King George III from the Levett family for £ 20, 000.

In the 18th Century John Wesley was a regular visitor to Whittlebury, describing the village in 1781 as, " This is still the loveliest congregation as well as the liveliest society in the circuit.

The village was designed and built around the original 1781 parish church.

Broadhalfpenny Down, situated on a hilltop about a mile from the rural village of Hambledon in Hampshire, was the home venue for first-class cricket matches of the Hambledon Club from 1753 to 1781.

As a venue for first-class cricket, Broadhalfpenny Down was used from 1753 ( the recently discovered earliest definite date ) until 1781, after which the Hambledon Club moved to Windmill Down, which is closer to the village.

Following the marriage of Mary Perry to Alexander McClintock in 1781, the village became the family seat of the McClintock family, who had settled in Ulster in 1597 from Argyll, Scotland.

There is also an early Congregational Chapel in the village ( Chapel Rd ) dating to 1781 but rebuilt in 1867.