1783
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This article is about the year 1783.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s |
| Years: | 1780 1781 1782 – 1783 – 1784 1785 1786 |
| 1783 by topic: |
| Arts and Sciences |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries |
| Canada – Great Britain – United States |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial governors – State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1783 MDCCLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2536 |
| Armenian calendar | 1232 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6533 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -61 – -60 |
| Bengali calendar | 1190 |
| Berber calendar | 2733 |
| British Regnal year | 23 Geo. 3 – 24 Geo. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2327 |
| Burmese calendar | 1145 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7291 – 7292 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年十一月廿八日 (4419/4479-11-28) — to —
癸卯年十二月初八日(4420/4480-12-8) |
| Coptic calendar | 1499 – 1500 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1775 – 1776 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5543 – 5544 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1839 – 1840 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1705 – 1706 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4884 – 4885 |
| Holocene calendar | 11783 |
| Iranian calendar | 1161 – 1162 |
| Islamic calendar | 1197 – 1198 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenmei 3 (天明3年) |
| Korean calendar | 4116 |
| Minguo calendar | 129 before ROC 民前129年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2326 |
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Year 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- February 3 – American Revolutionary War: Britain acknowledges the United States independence.
- February 4
- American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
- A sequence of earthquakes begins in Calabria, Italy, leaves 50,000 dead.
- February 26 – Continental Army Corps of Engineers disbanded.
- March 5 – Last celebration of Massacre Day.
- April 15 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War are ratified.
- May 18 – Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada – The first United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
- May 26 – A Great Jubilee Day celebrating end of American Revolution held in Trumbull, Connecticut.
- June 4 or June 5 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon) in Annonay, France.
- June 8 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an 8-month eruption which kills tens of thousands throughout Europe, including 1/5 of Iceland's population, and causes widespread famine. It has been described as one of "the greatest environmental catastrophes in European History".
[edit] July–December
- July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists are announced.
- July 24 – The Treaty of Georgievsk is signed between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia).
- August 5 – Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
- August 18 – A large fireball passes on a thousand-mile track across the North Sea, the United Kingdom and France, prompting scientific discussion.
- August 27 – Le Globe - Jacques Charles and Les Frères Robert launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon in Paris.
- September 3 – American Revolutionary War – Treaty of Paris: A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, formally ending the war.
- September 9 – Dickinson College was chartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
- October 3 – The Waterford Glassware Factory begins production in Waterford City, Ireland.
- November 2 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his Farewell Address to the Army.
- 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: 900 m).
- November 24 – In Spain, the Cedula of Population is signed, stating that anyone who will swear fealty to Spain and is of the Roman Catholic faith is welcome to populate Trinidad and Tobago.
- November 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City 3 months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- November 30 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey.
- December 1 – La Charlière - Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert made the first manned flight in a hydrogen-filled balloon in Paris.
- December 4 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
[edit] Date unknown
- The city of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean peninsula of the Russian Empire.
- United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States.
- The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England.
- Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.
- Ireland's last grey wolf is killed.
- Spanish government refuses to grant diplomatic recognition to the USA.
- Evan William's distillery was founded in Bardstown Kentucky.
[edit] Births
- January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- January 23 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
- March 8 – Hannah Van Buren (d. 1819)
- April 3 – Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
- July 24 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830)
- August 7 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1810)
- September 17 – Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)
- September 17 – Nadezhda Durova, First female Russian army officer (d. 1866)
- October 31 – Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857)
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
- February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
- March 23 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
- March 30 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
- March 31 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
- April 16
- Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b. 1745)
- Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
- May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
- September 18
- Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
- Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
- October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- November – Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (b. 1741 )
- November 22 – John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1715)
- November 23 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
- December 13 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
- December 16 – William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
