1783

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

1783 Media

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  November 21: The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by France's Montgolfier brothers, lifts off from the Bois de Boulogne.

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  September 3: Great Britain recognizes independence of the American nation, signs Treaty of Paris.

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  December 23: General George Washington Resigning His Commission

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  Portrait of Washington Irving in about 1820.

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  John Crawfurd

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  El Libertador en traje de campaña. 1895. Oleo sobre tela. 240 x 126,5 cm. Asamblea Legislativa del Estado Anzoategui. 1895.

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  Lancelot('Capability')BrownbyNathanielDance,(laterSirNathanielDanceHolland,Bt)cropped

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  LeonhardEuler

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.

Events

• February 3 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes the independence of the United States.
• February 4 – American Revolutionary War: the Government of the United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
• February 4 – Earthquake in Calabria, Italy – 50.000 dead
• March 5 – Last celebration of Massacre Day.
• May 18 – Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada– First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
• June 5 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon) in Annonay, France.
• June 8 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills 9350 people and starts a seven-year famine. Eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure.
• July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced.
• August 5 – Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
• September 3 – American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris – the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain sign a treaty in Paris, ending the war.
• November 2 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, American 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 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• December 4 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US general George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.

• City of Sevastopol founded;
• United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States;
• Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
• Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.

Births

• January 23 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
• March 8 – Hannah Van Buren, First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
• April 3 – Washington Irving, American writer (d. 1859)
• April 10 – Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III of France (d. 1837)
• July 24 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830).
• September 17 – Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)