16th » George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia called Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
17th » American Revolutionary War: British General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis or Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
20th » Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of religion called freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1781
5th » Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848)