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1781
 
    
German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes the first of his three 'critiques', The Critique of Pure Reason       
1781
 
    
Ann Lee leads her Shaker colleagues in a missionary tour of New England lasting two years       
1781
 
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The reforming emperor Joseph II emancipates the serfs in the Habsburg territories       
1781
 
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The British general Charles Cornwallis, isolated at Yorktown, is forced to surrender in the final engagement of the Revolutionary War       
1782
 
 
The Duke of Dorset organizes a cricket match    
Print recording a cricket match in Kent in 1782
Centre for Kentish Studies
1782
 
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Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style      
1782
 
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Friedrich von Schiller's youthful and anarchic play The Robbers causes a sensation when performed in Mannheim       
1782
 
    
The English actress Sarah Siddons, already well known in the province, causes a sensation when she appears in London at Drury Lane       
1782
 
    
12-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his first composition, Piano Variations on a March by Dressler       
1782
 
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French paper manufacturer Joseph Montgolfier sends a hot-air balloon 3000 feet (1000m) into the air, in front of a crowd in Annonay