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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
Astronomy
Messier 87, a
supergiant elliptical galaxy
, was
discovered
by French
astronomer
Charles Messier
.
Births
27
March
-
Charles Joseph Minard
, engineer
1 May -
François-Désiré Breton
,
naval officer
Deaths
18 March -
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
, statesman.
16 August -
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec
, soldier and
diplomat
Full date
missing
Christophe de
Beaumont
, archbishop