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Gregorian calendar | 1783 MDCCLXXXIII |
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Armenian calendar | 1232 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6533 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1704–1705 |
Bengali calendar | 1190 |
Berber calendar | 2733 |
British Regnal year | 23 Geo. 3 – 24 Geo. 3 |
Buddhist calendar | 2327 |
Burmese calendar | 1145 |
Byzantine calendar | 7291–7292 |
Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4480 or 4273 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4481 or 4274 |
Coptic calendar | 1499–1500 |
Discordian calendar | 2949 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1775–1776 |
Hebrew calendar | 5543–5544 |
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- Vikram Samvat | 1839–1840 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1704–1705 |
- Kali Yuga | 4883–4884 |
Holocene calendar | 11783 |
Igbo calendar | 783–784 |
Iranian calendar | 1161–1162 |
Islamic calendar | 1197–1198 |
Japanese calendar | Tenmei 3 (天明3年) |
Javanese calendar | 1708–1710 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4116 |
Minguo calendar | 129 before ROC 民前129年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 315 |
Thai solar calendar | 2325–2326 |
Tibetan calendar | 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1909 or 1528 or 756 — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1910 or 1529 or 757 |
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Year 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- February 3 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain acknowledges the independence of the United States of America. At this time the Spanish government does not grant diplomatic recognition.
- February 4 – American Revolutionary War: Great Britain formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States.
- February 5 – 1783 Calabrian earthquakes: First of a sequence of five earthquakes in Calabria, Italy (February 5–7, March 1 & 28), leaving 50,000 dead.
- February 26 – The United States Continental Army's Corps of Engineers is disbanded.
- March 5 – Last celebration of Massacre Day in Boston, Massachusetts.
- March 15 – Newburgh Conspiracy: A potential uprising in the Continental Army stationed at Newburgh, New York, is defused when George Washington asks the officers to support the supremacy of the United States Congress.
- April 8 – The Crimean Khanate, which had existed since 1441 and was the last remnant of the Mongol Golden Horde, is annexed by the Russian Empire of Catherine the Great.
- April 15 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War are ratified.
- May 18 – The first United Empire Loyalists, fleeing the new United States, reach Parrtown in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- May 26 – A Great Jubilee Day celebrating end of American Revolution held in Trumbull, Connecticut.
- June 4 or June 5 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière hot air balloon at Annonay in France.
- June 8 – The volcano Laki in Iceland begins an 8-month eruption starting the chain of natural disasters known as the Móðuharðindin, killing tens of thousands throughout Europe, including up to 33% of Iceland's population, and causing widespread famine. It has been described as one of "the greatest environmental catastrophes in European history".[1]
July–December
- July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists are announced.
- July 24 – The Treaty of Georgievsk is signed between Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti making Georgia a protectorate of Russia.
- August 5 – Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
- August 18 – The 1783 Great Meteor passes on a thousand-mile track across the North Sea, Great Britain and France, prompting scientific discussion.
- August 27 – Jacques Charles and Les Frères Robert launch the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon, Le Globe, in Paris.
- September 3 – Peace of Paris: A treaty between the United States and Great Britain is signed in Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War; and treaties are signed between Britain, France and Spain at Versailles ending hostilities with the Franco-Spanish Alliance. This also was the beginning of the Old West.
- September 9 – Dickinson College is chartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
- October 3 – First Waterford Crystal glassmaking business begins production in Waterford, Ireland.
- November 2 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, United States 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: 900 m).
- November 24 – In Spain, the Cedula of Population is signed, stating that anyone who will swear fealty to Spain and is of the Roman Catholic faith is welcome to populate Trinidad and Tobago.
- November 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City 3 months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- November 27 – John Michell and the black holes: The english rector, John Michell concludes that some stars might have enough gravity force to prevent light escapes from them, so he called them "dark stars".
- November 29 – New Jersey earthquake: An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude strikes New Jersey.
- December 1 – Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert make the first manned flight in a hydrogen-filled balloon, La Charlière, in Paris.
- December 4 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
- December 26 – Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute descent by jumping from the tower of the Montpellier observatory in France using his rigid-framed model which he intends as a form of fire escape.
Date unknown
- Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.
- The city of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Empire.
- The Evan Williams (whiskey) distillery is founded in Bardstown, Kentucky.
Births
- January 20 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- January 23 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
- February 8 – Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont, French general and governor-general of French Algeria (d. 1837)
- March 8 – Hannah Van Buren (d. 1819)
- April 3 – Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
- July 24 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830)
- August 7 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1810)
- September 17
- Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)
- Nadezhda Durova, First female Russian army officer (d. 1866)
- October 31 – Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857)
Date unknown
- The Two Headed Boy of Bengal who Suffered from a rare condition called Craniopagus parasiticus d. 1787
Deaths
- January 7 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1706)
- 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
- Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b. 1745)
- Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
- May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
- September 18
- Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
- Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
- October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- November 1 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (b. 1741 )
- 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)
References
- ^ Bressan, David. "8, June 1783: The Laki eruptions". Retrieved April 30, 2012.
Further reading
- John Blair; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1783". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn – via Hathi Trust.
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