1783
1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
EventsFebruary 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.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 - 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. - 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.
- 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
- 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 - March 31 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman
- April 16 - Benedict Joseph Labre, mendicant saint
- May 23 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
- October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
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