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Historical Events

  • Sep 4 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

Battle That Gave Birth To The USA

Sep 5 American Revolutionary War: French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British forces under Admiral Thomas Graves and Samuel Hood at the Battle of the Chesapeake [Battle of the Virginia Capes] and trap General Lord Charles Cornwallis

Battle of the Virginia Capes by Vladimir Zveg. US. Navy Art Collection, Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA
  • Sep 6 The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
  • Sep 25 -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets

Surrender at Yorktown

Sep 28 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops begin the siege of Yorktown

'Surrender of Lord Cornwallis' by John Trumbull depicting the British surrender which ended the American Revolutionary War

Events in 1781

Famous Birthdays

Eugène de Beauharnais (1781-1824)

Sep 3 stepson of Napoleon I (son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie), born in Paris

Eugène de Beauharnais
  • Sep 6 Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher and composer, born in Mattsee, Austria (d. 1858)
  • Sep 23 Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later also known as Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia, born in Coburg, Electorate of Bavaria (d. 1860)
Born in 1781

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 28 William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)


What Happened in 1781

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