1783

Years:
1780 1781 1782 – 1783 – 1784 1785 1786

Decades:
1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s

Centuries:
17th century – 18th century – 19th century

1783 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Science

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

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 of America.
March 5 – Last celebration of Massacre Day.
May 18 – Saint John, 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 loyalists announced.
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.

City of Sevastopol founded;
United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States;
Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England.
Loyalists 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)
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)

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