1781 in France

Events from the year 1781 in France.

Incumbents Monarch – Louis XVI

Events

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

Science 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) 12 December – Christophe de Beaumont, archbishop (born 1703)

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