1784

This article is about the year 1784.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1781 1782 1783 – 1784 – 1785 1786 1787

1784 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain – United States

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1784 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1784 MDCCLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2537
Armenian calendar	1233 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6534
Bahá'í calendar	-60–-59
Bengali calendar	1191
Berber calendar	2734
British Regnal year	24 Geo. 3 – 25 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2328
Burmese calendar	1146
Byzantine calendar	7292–7293
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十二月初九日 (4420/4480-12-9) — to — 甲辰年十一月二十日 (4421/4481-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1500–1501
Ethiopian calendar	1776–1777
Hebrew calendar	5544–5545
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1840–1841
- Shaka Samvat	1706–1707
- Kali Yuga	4885–4886
Holocene calendar	11784
Iranian calendar	1162–1163
Islamic calendar	1198–1199
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 4 (天明4年)
Korean calendar	4117
Minguo calendar	128 before ROC 民前128年
Thai solar calendar	2327

Year 1784 (MDCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 6 – The Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople.
• January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War, with the signature of President of Congress Thomas Mifflin.
• January 15 – Henry Cavendish's paper to the Royal Society of London, Experiments on Air, reveals the composition of water.
• February 27 – The Count of St. Germain dies of pneumonia in Schleswig-Holstein.

February 28: John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church.

• February 28 – John Wesley ordains ministers for the Methodist Church in the United States.
• June 4 – Elizabeth Thible is the first woman to ride in a hot air balloon, at Lyon, France.

July–December

• August 15 – Cardinal de Rohan is called before the court to account for his actions in the Queen's Necklace Affair.
• August 16 – Britain creates the colony of New Brunswick.
• September 22 – Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
• November 26 – The Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States is established.
• December 25 – The Methodist Episcopal Church, USA is officially formed at the "Christmas Conference" led by Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury.

Date unknown

• Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a revolution in Transylvania.
• King Carlos III of the Spanish Empire authorizes land grants in Alta California.
• The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Morgansborough, named for Daniel Morgan. The town is designated as the county seat for Burke County, North Carolina and is subsequently renamed "Morgantown" and later shortened to become Morganton.
• The North Carolina General Assembly changes the name of Kingston, North Carolina, originally named for King George III of Great Britain, to Kinston.
• The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation.
• A huge locust swarm hits South Africa.
• 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.
• Cholesterol is isolated.
• Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing 1:n as (n(n+1))/2, at the age of 7.
• Madame du Coudray, pioneer of modern midwifery, retires.
• The India Act requires that the governor general be chosen from outside the British East India Company and it makes company directors subject to parliamentary supervision.
• Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton.
• Emmanuel Kant writes What is Enlightenment?

Births

• January 17 – Philippe Antoine d’Ornano, Marshal of France (d. 1863)
• January 28 – George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
• February 5 – Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
• April 5 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (d. 1859)
• April 13 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
• July 22 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
• July 27 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
• October 13 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
• October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
• October 19
  • Leigh Hunt, British critic and essayist (d. 1859)
  • John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
• October 20 – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865)
• October – Sarah Biffen, armless English painter (d. 1850)
• November 24 – Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)

Deaths

• January 27 – Count of St. Germain (b. 1710)
• April 26 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
• May 12 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
• June 13 – Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
• June 26 – Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1728)
• July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
• July 31 – Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1713)
• August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
• August 10 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
• August 14 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
• August 28 – Junípero Serra, Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713)
• September 4 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)
• September 8 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
• December 4 – Wiseman Claget, English classical scholar (b. 1721)
• December 5 – Phillis Wheatley, First African-American to publish a book (b. 1753)
• December 13 – Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
• December 25 – Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
• December 26 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)
• date unknown – Le Quy Don, Vietnamese philosopher, poet, encyclopedist, and government official (b. 1726)