1783 in the United States

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Events from the year 1783 in the United States.

Events

January–March

• February 3 – American Revolutionary War: Britain awards the 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.
• 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–June

• April 15 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War are ratified by the Congress of the Confederation.
• April – Peace and Commercial Treaty signed with Sweden in Paris, first act of state concluded between United States and a foreign power
• May 26 – A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut to celebrate the end of the American Revolution.
• June 20 – Continental Army soldiers mob Independence Hall demanding back pay from the Congress of the Confederation in the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783. Congress flees to New Jersey.

July–September

• July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists are announced.
• September 3 – American Revolutionary War – Treaty of Paris: A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war. The treaty also formally granted the United States independence from Great Britain.
• September 9 – Dickinson College was chartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
• September 22 – Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 prohibits the settlement, purchase or receipt of Indian lands beyond existing states without its specific authority and direction.

October–December

November 25: Washington's Entry into New York by Currier & Ives

December 23: George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the American armies

• November 2 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his Farewell Address to the Army.
• November 25 – Evacuation Day (New York): The last British troops leave New York City and George Washington triumphantly returns, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• November 29 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
• December 4 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
• December 23 – George Washington resigns his commission as commander-in-chief of the American armies.

Undated

• United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States.
• Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.
• Spain refuses to grant diplomatic recognition to the United States.
• Evan Williams's distillery was founded in Bardstown, Kentucky.

Ongoing

• American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
• Articles of Confederation in effect (1781–1788)

Births

• January 14 – Wilson Lumpkin, United States Senator from Georgia from 1837 till 1841 and Governor of Georgia from 1831 till 1835. (died 1870)
• March 8 – Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (died 1819)
• April 3 – Washington Irving, author (died 1859)
• May 12 – Perry Smith, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1837 till 1843. (died 1852)
• May 25 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1836 till 1841. (died 1841)
• June 21 – Theodosia Burr Alston, Daughter of Aaron Burr (died 1813)
• July 31 – John Wales, United States Senator from Delaware from 1849 till 1851. (died 1863)
• August 12 – John Williams Walker, United States Senator from Alabama from 1819 till 1822. (died 1823)
• September 14 – Henry Johnson, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1818 till 1824 and from 1844 till 1849. (died 1864)
• December 14 – David Barton, United States Senator from Missouri from 1821 till 1831. (died 1837)

Deaths

• May 23 – James Otis, Jr., political activist and pamphleteer (born 1725)
• November 22 – John Hanson, President of the Continental Congress (born 1721)

External links

• Media related to 1783 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons