The Iron Bridge - the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron - opens in England (Jan 1), the planet Uranus is discovered (Mar 13), Spanish army puts down the Inca rebellions, and savagely executes Túpac Amaru II (May 18), Los Angeles is founded by a group of 44 Spanish settlers in California (Sep 4), the first bagpipes competition is held in Scotland (Oct 12), the American Revolution goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1781-xxxx George Erskine* Wesleyan minister/to Australia at age 41 - Tyrone, Ireland (1834/53)
1781-0113 Lars Arnell the younger* soldier/ translator/civil servant active in Finland - Stockholm, Sweden (1856/75)
1781-0124 Fredrik Blom* carpenter/ architect - Karlskrona, Sweden (1853/72)
1781-0124 Louis-Mathieu Molé* statesman/ close friend and associate of Louis Philippe I - Paris, Kingdom of France (1855/74)
1781-0217 René Laennec* physician/inventor of stethoscope – Quimper, France (1826/45)
1781-0304 Rebecca Gratz* educator/ philanthropist- Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1869/88)
1791-0304 George Ord* ornithologist/mammologist - Philadephia, Pennsylvania (1866/84)
1781-0312 Frederica of Baden* Queen of Sweden as the consort of King Gustav IV Adolf - Karlsruhe, GD of Baden (1826/45)
1781-0407 Francis Leggatt Chantrey* sculptor - Jordanthorpe, Derbyshire, England (1841/60)
1781-0509 Henri Cassini* botanist/naturalist - Paris, France (1832/50)
1781-0522 Carl Otto Mörner* courtier/instrumental in making Jean Baptiste Bernadotte from France the King of Sweden – Uppsala, Sweden (1868/87)
1781-0621 Siméon Denis Poisson* mathematician/engineer/physicist - Pithiviers, Kingdom of France (1840/58)
1781-0706 Stamford Raffles* British statesman/founder of Singapore - at sea near Port Morant, Jamaica (1826/44)
1781-0714 Jaakko Juteini* (b Juutila) Fennoman writer - Hattula, Sweden-Finland (1855/73)
1781-0723 William John Burchell* explorer/ naturalist/author – Fulham, London, England (1863/)
1781-0812 Robert Mills* architect/ designer of the Washington Monument – Charleston, South Carolina (1855/73)
1781-0825 Carl Johan Holm* priest/ memoirist - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1867/85)
1781-1005 Bernard Bolzano* logician/philosopher/priest- Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (1848/67)
1781-1129 Andrés Bello* humanist/legislator/philologist - Caracas, Venezuela (1865/83)
1781-1211 David Brewster* scientist/inventor/author - Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, England (1868/86)
Updated 21.11.2022-3
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