1783

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Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  - 1780s -  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1780 1781 1782 - 1783 - 1784 1785 1786

1783 in topic:

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Art - Literature - Music - Science

Countries:                       Canada

Great Britain - Mexico

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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Year 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1783 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1783

January - June

• February 3 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.

• February 4 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
• February 4 - Earthquake in Calabria, Italy: 50,000 dead.
• March 5 - Last celebration of Massacre Day.
• May 18 - Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada- First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.

• 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 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.

Effects of the Laki volcano were felt all over Europe. New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of "the greatest environmental catastrophies in European History" (See BBC.co.uk website for the programme "Timewatch: Killer Cloud" - broadcast BBC2 19th Jan 2007).

July - December

• July 16 - Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced.
• July 24 - Treaty of Georgievsk between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia).
• August 5 - Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
• September 3 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.

• 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: 5* miles).
• November 25 - American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

• December 4 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.

Undated

• City of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine.
• United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States.
• Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England.
• Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.

Births

1783 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1783 MDCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2536
Armenian calendar	1232 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-61 – -60
Buddhist calendar	2327
Chinese calendar	4419/4479-11-28 (壬寅年十一月廿八日) — to — 4420/4480-12-8 (癸卯年十二月初八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1775 – 1776
Hebrew calendar	5543 – 5544
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1838 – 1839
- 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)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2443 (皇紀2443年)
- Jōmon Era	11783
Julian calendar	1828
Korean calendar	4116
Thai solar calendar	2326
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• January 20 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
• January 23 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
• March 8 - Hannah Van Buren, First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
• April 3 - Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
• April 10 - Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III of France (d. 1837)
• July 24 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830).
• September 17 - Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)

Unknown dates

• Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857)
• Nadezhda Durova, First, female, Russian officer (d. 1866)

See also Category: 1783 births.

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)
• April 16 - 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)
• September 18 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
• October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
• 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)

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Unknown dates

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See also Category: 1783 deaths.

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