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