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1781 in France

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1781 in France

Events from the year 1781 in France

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Louis XVI

    • Events

  • 6 January – Battle of Jersey
  • May – Invasion of Tobago
  • 12 December – Battle of Ushant

    • Astronomy

  • Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier.

    • Births

  • 27 March – Charles Joseph Minard, engineer (died 1870)
  • 1 May – François-Désiré Breton, naval officer

    • Deaths

  • 18 March – Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, statesman (born 1727).
  • 16 August – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, soldier and diplomat (born 1719)

    • Full date missing

  • Christophe de Beaumont, archbishop (born 1703)

    • References

    1781 in France Wikipedia
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