1784

Years: 1781 1782 1783 - 1784 - 1785 1786 1787
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1784 in art 1784 in literature 1784 in music 1784 in science List of state leaders in 1784 List of religious leaders in 1784

Table of contents

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2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of Constantinople
January 14 - The U.S. Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War
February 27 ÃÂ Count of St Germain dies of pneumonia in Schleswig-Holstein
February 28 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church
August 10 - Jeanne de la Motte fools Cardinal de Rohan - Queen's Necklace Affair begins
The Japanese famine continues as 300,000 die of starvation
Benjamin Franklin tries in vain to persuade the French to alter their clocks in winter to take advantage of the daylight
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal spectacles
Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry
Britain receives its first bales of imported American cotton
Emperor Josef II suspends the Hungarian Constitution because of a Revolution in Transylvania
Huge locust swarm in South Africa