1784
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1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
- January 6 – the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
- January 14 – The US Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War
- February 27 – Count of St Germain dies of pneumonia in Schleswig-Holstein
- February 28 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church
- August 10 – Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan – Queen's Necklace Affair begins
- December 25 – Methodist Episcopal Church in USA officially formed at so-called "Christmas Conference", led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
- The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
- Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
- Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
- Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
- Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
- Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania
- Huge locust swarm in South Africa
Births
- January 28 – George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
- March 13 – Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1842)
- April 5 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (d. 1859)
- October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
- October 19 – John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
- October – Sarah Biffen, English painter (d. 1850)
- November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)
Deaths
- July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
- July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
- August 28 – JunÃpero Serra, Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary (b. 1713)
- September 8 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
- December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographyer (b. 1709)
- December 26 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
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