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The year 1781 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. See also: 1780 in science, other events of 1781, 1782 in science and the list of years in science.
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2 Biology
- Felix Fontana uses a microscope to describe the axon of a brain cell
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- January 30January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 335 days remaining, (336 in leap years). Events 1595 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time. 1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded. 1781 Artic - Adelbert von ChamissoAdelbert von Chamisso ( January 30, 1781 August 21, 1838), was a German poet and botanist. He was born at the chateau of Boncourt in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family. Driven out by the French Revolution, his parents settled in Berlin, w, poet, botanist (died 1838See also Other events of 1838 List of years in science. 1837 in science 1838 in science 1839 in science. The year 1838 in science and technology Astronomy Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star, 61 Cygni, using)
- February 17February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 317 days remaining (318 in leap years). Events 197 Battle of Lugdunum, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats his rival Clodius Albinus, securing full control over the Roman Emp - Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, inventor of the stethoscopeThe stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for auscultation i. listening to internal sounds in the human body. It is most often used to listen to heart sounds and breathing, though it is also used to listen to intestines and to blood flow in arteries a (died 1826See also Other events of 1826 List of years in science. 1825 in science 1826 in science 1827 in science. The year 1826 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. Chemistry Antoine Jerome Balard isolates bromine Technolo)
- June 9June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. Events 68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging - George Stephenson, locomotive engineer (died 1848)
- June 21 - Simeon Poisson, mathematician (died 1840)
- July 6 - Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of the Zoological Society of London (died 1826)
- October 5 - Bernhard Bolzano, mathematician (died 1848)
- December 11 - David Brewster, Scottish physicist (died 1868)