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'''Years:''' 1780 1781 1782 - 1783 -
1784 1785 1786
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'''Decades:''' 1750s 1760s 1770s - '''
1780s''' -
1790s 1800s 1810s
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18th century''' -
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'''1783''' was a
common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
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February 3 -
American Revolutionary War:
Spain recognizes
United States independence.
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February 4 -
American Revolutionary War:
Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the
United States United States of America.
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February 4 -
Earthquake in
Calabria,
Italy - 50.000 dead
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March 5 - Last celebration of
Massacre Day.
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May 18 -
Saint John, New Brunswick Saint John,
New Brunswick,
Canada- First
United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
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June 5 - The
Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their ''montgolfière'' (
hot air balloon) in
Annonay,
France.
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June 8 - The
volcano Laki, in
Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills 9350 people and starts a seven-year
famine. Eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure.
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July 16 - Grants of land in
Canada to American
Loyalist (American Revolution) loyalists announced.
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August 5 -
Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in
Edo period Japan.
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September 3 -
American Revolutionary War ends:
Treaty of Paris (1783) Treaty of Paris - A
treaty between the
United States and the
Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in
Paris, ending the war.
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November 2 - In
Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General
George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
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November 21 - In
Paris,
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and
François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered
hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5* miles).
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November 25 -
American Revolutionary War: The last
Kingdom of Great Britain British troops leave
New York City three months after the signing of the
Treaty of Paris (1783) Treaty of Paris.
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December 4 - At Fraunces Tavern in
New York City, US General
George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
*City of
Sevastopol founded on the
Crimean peninsula of
Ukraine;
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United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States;
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Treaty of Versailles (1783) Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilities between the
Franco-Spanish Alliance and England.
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Loyalist (American Revolution) Loyalists from
New York settle
Great Abaco in the
Bahamas..
Births
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January 23 -
Stendhal, French writer (d.
1842)
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March 8 -
Hannah Van Buren,
First Lady of the United States (d.
1819)
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April 3 -
Washington Irving, American author (d.
1859)
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April 10 -
Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of
Napoleon III of France (d.
1837)
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July 24 -
Simón BolÃvar,
Venezuela Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d.
1830).
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September 17 -
Samuel Prout, English painter (d.
1852)
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Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner,
German people German chemist
Deaths
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January 7 -
William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b.
1700)
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February 6 -
Capability Brown, English landscape gardner (b.
1716)
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March 23 -
Charles Carroll (barrister) Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b.
1723)
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March 30 -
William Hunter (anatomist) William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b.
1718)
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March 31 -
Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b.
1718)
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April 16 -
Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b.
1745)
*April 16 -
Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b.
1719)
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May 23 -
James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b.
1725)
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September 18 -
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b.
1707)
*September 18 -
Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b.
1718)
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October 29 -
Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b.
1717)
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November 22 -
John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b.
1715)
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November 23 -
Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b.
1714)
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December 13 -
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b.
1717)
*
December 16 -
William James (naval commander) William James, British naval commander (b.
1720)
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