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Year 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events of 1783
[edit] January - June
- Effects of the Laki volcano were felt all over Europe. New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of "the greatest environmental catastrophies in European History".
[edit] July - December
- July 16 - Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists are announced.
- July 24 - The Treaty of Georgievsk is signed between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia).
- August 5 - Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
- 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.
- September 9 - Dickinson College was chartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
- October 3 - The Waterford Glassware Factory begins production in Waterford City, Ireland.
- 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 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.
- December 4 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
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[edit] Births
- See also Category: 1783 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 7 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
- 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
- May 23 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
- September 18
- October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1783 deaths.
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