1783

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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).

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Events of 1783

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1783

January - June

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

★ February 4

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★ American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.

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★ An earthquake in Calabria, Italy, leaves 50,000 dead.

★ March 5 - Last celebration of Massacre Day.

★ April 15 - Preliminary articles of peace ending American Revolutionary War ratified.

★ 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"

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 Russian Empire.

★ 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

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857)

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★ Nadezhda Durova, First female Russian army officer (d. 1866)
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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

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★ Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b. 1745)

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★ Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)

★ May 23 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)

★ September 18

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★ Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)

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★ 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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