1781

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years:	1778 1779 1780 – 1781 – 1782 1783 1784

Events

January 26 – Achim von Arnim, German writer (d. 1831)
January 30 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
February 17 – Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician and inventor (d. 1826)
March 4 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German architect and painter (d. 1841)
June 9– George Stephenson, English engineer (d. 1848)
June 21 – Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)
July 6 – Thomas Stamford Raffles, English founder of Singapore (d. 1826)
July 6 – John D. Sloat, American naval officer (d. 1867)
July 27 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
September 3 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French nobleman, son of Napoleon's wife Josephine (d. 1824)
September 6 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (d. 1858)
October 1 – James Lawrence, U.S. Navy officer (d. 1813)
November 6 – Lucy Aikin, English writer (d. 1864)
November 20 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
November 29 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaked, teacher, philosopher and sociologist (d. 1865)
November 30 – Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
December 11 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist (d. 1868)
William Williams of Wern, minister (d. 1840)