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

Astronomy

 * 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)

Full date missing

 * Christophe de Beaumont, archbishop (born 1703)