1783

Years: 1780 1781 1782 - 1783 - 1784 1785 1786
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1783 in art 1783 in literature 1783 in music 1783 in science List of state leaders in 1783 List of religious leaders in 1783

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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.
May 18 - Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada- First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
June 5 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiÃÂ¨re (hot air balloon) in Annonay, France.
June 8 - The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption until February 1784 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.
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-FranÃÂ§ois PilÃÂ¢tre de Rozier and FranÃÂ§ois Laurent, the marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5ÃÂ½ 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 England.

Births

January 23 - Stendhal, writer
March 8 - Hannah Van Buren, First Lady of the United States
April 3 - Washington Irving, American author
April 10 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France.
September 17 - Samuel Prout, watercolour painter

Deaths

October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician