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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1781. 1781 (MDCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    a theme with variations by Viotti written in 1781, 11 years before the appearance of the official French national anthem.] La Face, Giuseppina (10 January...
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    The siege of Pensacola, fought from March 9 to May 10, 1781, was the culmination of Spain's conquest of West Florida during the Gulf Coast Campaign of...
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    Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at exactly 10:30 am in Yorktown, Virginia. It was a decisive...
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    1807) was a French nobleman and general whose army played a critical role in helping the United States defeat the British Army at Yorktown in 1781 during the...
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    Dauphin of France (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789) Louis-Charles, Dauphin after the death of his elder brother, future titular King Louis XVII of France (27 March...
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    pregnancy was affirmed in March 1781, and on 22 October she gave birth to Louis Joseph Xavier François, Dauphin of France. Empress Maria Theresa died on...
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    acceding to the throne of France. However, Louis Stanislas did not remain heir to the throne much longer. On 22 October 1781, Marie Antoinette gave birth...
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    first few months of 1781, largely by Don Luis Berton de los Blats, Duque de Crillon (or rather, Duc de Crillon, for he was actually French, a descendant of...
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    Politics of France President of France renamed from La République En Marche! in September 2022 List on the website of the French Prime Minister (in French)...
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