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1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).

Events

• February 3 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
• February 4 - American Revolutionary War: Great Britain 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 4 or 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.
• July 24 - Treaty of Georgievsk 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 ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
• 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 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.

Unknown dates

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

Births

• January 24 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
• March 8 - Hannah Van Buren, First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
• April 3 - Washington Irving, American author (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)
• Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist

Deaths

• January 7 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
• February 6 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardner (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)
• April 16 - 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)
• September 18 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
• 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)

Buildings

• Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg

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