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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
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)
References