1783

1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1783rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 783rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1783, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1783 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1783
MDCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita2536
Armenian calendar1232
ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ
Assyrian calendar6533
Balinese saka calendar1704–1705
Bengali calendar1190
Berber calendar2733
British Regnal year23 Geo. 3  24 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2327
Burmese calendar1145
Byzantine calendar7291–7292
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4479 or 4419
     to 
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4480 or 4420
Coptic calendar1499–1500
Discordian calendar2949
Ethiopian calendar1775–1776
Hebrew calendar5543–5544
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1839–1840
 - Shaka Samvat1704–1705
 - Kali Yuga4883–4884
Holocene calendar11783
Igbo calendar783–784
Iranian calendar1161–1162
Islamic calendar1197–1198
Japanese calendarTenmei 3
(天明3年)
Javanese calendar1708–1710
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4116
Minguo calendar129 before ROC
民前129年
Nanakshahi calendar315
Thai solar calendar2325–2326
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
The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes off from the Bois de Boulogne, on November 21, 1783

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April
    • A Peace and Commercial Treaty is signed between the newly-formed United States and Sweden in Paris, among the first acts of state concluded between the U.S. and a foreign power.[3]
    • General George Washington sends a letter to the 13 governors of the Confederation of the United States, regarding the needs of the nation.[4]
  • April 8 The Crimean Khanate, which has existed since 1441 and is a late remnant of the Mongol Golden Horde, is annexed by the Russian Empire of Catherine the Great.
  • April 928 Second Anglo-Mysore War: Siege of Bednore Tipu Sultan of Mysore with 100,000 troops besieges 1600 British East India Company troops who are obliged to surrender with honours of war.
  • April 15 Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War are ratified by the Congress of the Confederation in the United States.
  • April 18 Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), is included in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation (this is later adopted in the 1787 Constitution).
  • May 13 The Society of the Cincinnati, a fraternal organization for American veterans of the American Revolution, is formed in Newburgh, New York.[4]
  • 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 the end of the American Revolution, is held in Trumbull, Connecticut.
  • June 4 or June 5 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière hot air balloon at Annonay, 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".[5]

JulySeptember

  • 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 4 Mount Asama, the most active volcano in Japan, begins a climactic eruption, killing roughly 1,400 people directly and exacerbating a famine, resulting in another 20,000 deaths (Tenmei eruption).
  • August 10 The British East India Company packet ship Antelope (1781) is wrecked off Ulong Island in the Palau (Pelew) group, resulting in the first sustained European contact with those islands.[6]
  • August 18 The 1783 Great Meteor passes on a 1,000-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, in which Britain recognizes the independence of the United States; and treaties are signed between Britain, France, and Spain at Versailles, ending hostilities with the Franco-Spanish Alliance. This is also the beginning of the Old West.
  • September 9 Dickinson College is chartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

OctoberDecember

  • October 3 The first Waterford Crystal glassmaking business begins production in Waterford, Ireland.
  • October 17 Mozart's Great Mass is first performed, in Salzburg, Austria.
  • November 2 In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, United States General George Washington gives his Farewell Address to the Army.
  • November 3 The American Continental Army is disbanded as the first act of business by the Confederation Congress, after Thomas Mifflin is elected the new President to succeed Elias Boudinot.[4]
  • 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 and George Washington triumphantly returns, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
  • November 27 English rector John Michell concludes that some stars might have enough gravity force to prevent light escaping from them, so he calls them "dark stars".
  • November 29 1783 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 23: General George Washington Resigning His Commission
  • December 23 General George Washington resigns his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army to the Congress of the Confederation in the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland, and retires to his home at Mount Vernon. Washington's resignation, described by historian Thomas Fleming as "the most important moment in American history,"[7] affirms the United States' commitment to the principle of civilian control of the military, and prompts King George III to call Washington "the greatest character of the age."[8]
  • December 31 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, by rear admiral Thomas MacKenzie.
  • Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the first female foreign member and its second female member, after Eva Ekeblad.
  • The Evan Williams (bourbon) distillery is founded in Bardstown, Kentucky.
  • Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Khalifa, the Emir of Zubarah conquers and rules Bahrain. Shaikh Ahmed restores Arab independence and sovereignty over Bahrain and makes the islands his summer residence.

Births

  • April 3 Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)[9]
  • April 21 Reginald Heber, English priest (d. 1821)[10]
  • May 1 Vicente Rocafuerte, Ecuadorian politician, 2nd president of Ecuador (d. 1847)
  • May 3 José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st president of Peru and 2nd president of North Peru (d. 1858)
  • May 25 Philip P. Barbour, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1841)
John Crawfurd
  • July 24 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830)
  • July 28 Friedrich Wilhelm von Bismarck, German army officer and writer (d. 1860)
  • August 7 Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, member of the British Royal Family (d. 1810)
  • August 26 Federigo Zuccari, astronomer, director of the Astronomical Observatory of Naples (d. 1817)
  • September 17
    • Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)[11]
    • 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, sufferer from the rare condition Craniopagus parasiticus (d. 1787)
    • Mary Anne Whitby, English scientist (d. 1850)

Deaths

  • February 6 Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
  • February 10 James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works (b. 1715)
  • March 2 Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (b. 1707)
  • March 19 Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1713)
  • March 23 Charles Carroll, American lawyer, delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
  • March 26 Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (b. 1713)
  • March 30 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
  • March 31 Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
  • April 7 Ignaz Holzbauer, German composer (b. 1711)
  • April 16
    • Benedict Joseph Labre, French Catholic saint (b. 1745)
    • Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
  • May 11 Juliane Reichardt, German-born Bohemian pianist, singer and composer (b. 1752)
  • May 23 James Otis, American lawyer, patriot (b. 1725)
  • June 2 Charles Spalding, Scottish inventor and underwater diver, killed in diving bell accident (b. 1738)
  • September 14 James Grenville, British Member of Parliament (b. 1715)

References

  1. Cobbett, William, ed. (1814). The Parliamentary History of England: From the Earliest Period to Year 1803, Vol. XXIII: The Parliamentary Debates, 10 May 1782 to 1 December 1783. London: T. C. Hansard. pp. 346–354.
  2. Laws of the United States of America; from the 4th of March, 1789, to the 4th of March, 1815, Vol. 1. Weightman. 1815. p. 708.
  3. Klerkäng, Anne (1958). Sweden – America's First Friend. Örebro. Includes fascimile reproduction of treaty text.
  4. Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
  5. Bressan, David. "8, June 1783: The Laki eruptions". Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  6. "Palau". Archived from the original on December 26, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  7. Fleming, Thomas. "The Most Important Moment in American History". History News Network. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  8. Brookhiser, Richard (1996). Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. Newark, NJ: Free Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780684822914.
  9. "Washington Irving – American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  10. Montefiore, Arthur (1902). Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta. New York, Chicago and Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company. pp. 9–10. OCLC 155604573.; re-printed 2015 by Facsimile Publisher and distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi.
  11. "Samuel Prout (1783–1852)". artuk.org. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  12. Rudolf Vierhaus, ed., Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie, p.289

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