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  1. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    73: *[[James Abercrombie|Abercrombie, James]], (1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War
  2. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
    19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
  3. Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
    11: ... She also encouraged the [[colonization]] of [[Alaska]] and of conquered areas.
    17: ...uld not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in [[1781]] was dismissed.
    19: ...laced [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatowski]], a former lover, on the [[List of Polish ruler...
    25: ...ffensive. This culminated in the [[Battle of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), J...
  4. Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
    9: ...oncert for the Imperial Family. When the Empress asked him what he would like as a reward, Mozart is s...
    17: When Maria Theresa asked a seer if her daughter would be happy in France...
    45: ...tte was subjected to cat-calls from market women asking why she had not produced a son too. She spent ...
    71: ...[Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran篩s|Louis-Jos鰨]] in [[1781]], [[Louis XVII|Louis-Charles]] in [[1785]] and S...
    105: ... that evening. When [[Louis XVI]] heard of it he asked, "This is a revolt?" to which the duc de la Roc...
  5. George Washington (29551 bytes)
    41: ...hn Adams]] suggested his appointment, citing his "skill as an officer... great talents and universal c...
    47: ...wine]] on [[September 11]] and succeeded in his task. An attempt to dislodge the British, the [[Battle...
    53: ...rces and a French fleet had [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|trapped General Cornwallis]] at [[Yorktown, Virg...
    102: As President, Washington was mindful of the risk of splitting apart the young [[republic]] over th...
    109: ...in his later life are highly edited. He did not ask for any clergy on his deathbed, though one was av...
  6. John Hancock (8787 bytes)
    27: ...tle to feed the hungry army. On [[January 19]], [[1781]], General Washington warned Hancock:
    30: ...n the Field." (United States Library of Congress, 1781.)
    48: * The [[John Hancock Center]], major skyscraper in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]
    52: * United States Library of Congress (1781). ''George Washington Papers''. Online: [http://m...
  7. Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
    14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took offic...
    25: ...culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task of writing the Declaration which included Jeffers...
    29: ...efferson1web.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Letter to Col. Skipwith, concerning millet seed]]
    157: ...ng. Moreover, his private letters indicate he was skeptical of too much interference by [[clergy]] in ...
    161: ...p forever" (''Notes on the State of Virginia'', [[1781]]-[[1785]] Query 18). Though not religious himsel...
  8. United States (58223 bytes)
    2: ... [[Caribbean Sea]]. Two of the fifty states, [[Alaska]], an [[exclave]], and [[Hawaii]], an [[archipel...
    58: ...as a [[confederation]] in [[1777]], ratified in [[1781]] as the [[Articles of Confederation]]. After lon...
    60: ...the [[Missouri Compromise]] and the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]]. The dispute reached a crisis point in [[1...
    88: ...ected legislature with two houses (one, in [[Nebraska]]), whose members represent the different parts ...
    110: ...ate rain forests]] in the Pacific Northwest. [[Alaska]]'s [[tundra]] and the [[volcano|volcanic]], [[t...
  9. James Watt (5070 bytes)
    15: * [[1781]]: Converted reciprocal engine motion to rotary m...
  10. Asteroid (24334 bytes)
    56: ...pon limit of faintness. On subsequent nights, the sky would be charted again and any moving object wou...
    64: ...not bother with them, calling them "vermin of the skies".
    67: ...ed by a four-step process. First, a region of the sky was [[photograph]]ed by a wide-field [[telescope...
    86: * The [[Catalina Sky Survey]]
    129: ...epictions of asteroids focus on their potential risk of striking Earth. Representations of the asteroi...
  11. List of inventors (14020 bytes)
    158: ... — African-American Inventor of the [[gas mask]], and [[traffic signal]].
    200: *[[George Stephenson]], (1781-1848), [[England]] — steam locomotive, civi...
  12. American Revolution (17069 bytes)
    2: ...er the British surrender at [[Battle of Yorktown (1781)|Yorktown]]. "The Revolution was effected before ...
  13. Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
    35: *[[1777]] - [[Battle of Oriskany]] ([[August 6]])
    43: *[[1781]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] ratified
    44: *[[1781]] - British surrender at [[Yorktown]]
    45: *[[1781]] - [[Bank of North America]] chartered
  14. History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
    13: ...into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outlined the gove...
    27: ...the wilderness of western Massachusetts to the outskirts of Boston. The appearance of cannon on Dorch...
    33: ... Revolution was also supposedly less intense. In 1781, a combined American and French Army, acting with...
    47: ...ress recommended the Constitution to the States, asking that such ratification conventions be called.
  15. Uranus (15207 bytes)
    13: | [[March 13]], [[1781]]
    89: ...333 333 d (17 h 14 min 24.000 00 s) [http://www.hnsky.org/iau-iag.htm <sup>1</sup>]
    158: ...ed with an enormous protoplanet, resulting in the skewed orientation.
    170: ...3]], [[1781]], but reported it on [[April 26]], [[1781]] as a "[[comet]]": ''Account of a Comet, By Mr. ...
    179: ...een with the naked eye as a faint star under dark sky conditions. It can be easily found with binocula...
  16. January 17 (12233 bytes)
    9: * [[1781]] - Continental troops under Brigadier General [[...
    94: *[[1952]] - [[Darrell Porter]], basketball player (d. [[2002]])
    95: *1952 - [[Larry Fortensky]], husband of [[Elizabeth Taylor]]
    104: *1970 - [[Genndy Tartakovsky]], [[animator]] (''[[Clone Wars (cartoon)|Star W...
    110: *[[1982]] - [[Dwyane Wade]], basketball player
  17. Independence Day (United States) (6238 bytes)
    36: * In [[1781]], [[Massachusetts]] was the first [[legislature]...
  18. French Revolution (36529 bytes)
    21: ... Necker]] (Director-General of Finance 1777&ndash;1781), unsuccessfully proposed to revise the French ta...
    181: After early skirmishes went badly for France, the first signific...
  19. Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
    14: ...e]] and [[René Descartes]], was based on extreme skepticism, and inquiry into the nature of "knowledg...
    16: ...fied the central concept of the Enlightenment and sketched its theoretical program" (Cassirer 1979: 12...
    108: ...After the election of [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]] as king of [[Poland]] in 1764, Krasicki became...
    116: * [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] (1729-1781) ''German'' Dramatist, critic, political philosop...
  20. Federal government of the United States (13380 bytes)
    1: ...he [[Articles of Confederation]] (in force from [[1781]] to [[1788]]). The Constitution is currently on ...

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