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1783{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1780 1781 1782 - 1783 - 1784 1785 1786 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |} 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ==Events== *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. *March 5 - Last celebration of Massacre Day. * May 18 - Saint John, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada- First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown. * 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. * July 16 - Grants of land in Canada to American Loyalist (American Revolution) announced. * August 5 - Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan. * September 3 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris (1783) - 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 Kingdom of Great Britain troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783). * December 4 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell. *City of Sevastopol founded; *United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States; *Treaty of Versailles (1783) signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England. * Loyalist (American Revolution) from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas. ==Births== *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, Venezuela patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830). *September 17 - Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852) ==Deaths== *March 31 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718) *April 16 - Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b. 1745) *May 23 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725) *September 18 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707) *October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717) 1783 bs:1783 os:1783 simple:1783 1783I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 12:32, 7 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo 17831780s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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