Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1781
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Literature
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose for Children
- Edward Gibbon, second instalment of The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire
- Samuel Johnson finishes publishing The Lives of the Poets
(Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English
Poets)
- Friedrich Schiller, Die Rauber
Theatre
Art
- Richard Wilson retires to Wales
Music
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Astronomer Frederick William Herschel discovers Uranus
Politics & Law
- October: Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
Philosophy & Theology
- Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Milestones
Miscellaneous
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