1784
1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events January 6 - the Turks agree to Russia's annexation of the Crimea in the Treaty of ConstantinopleJanuary 14 - The US Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with England to end the American Revolutionary War February 27 – 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
Births - January 28 - George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- March 13 - Jean Moufot, French philosopher and mathematician
- April 5 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (d. 1859)
- October 13 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain
- October 19 - John McLoughlin, Fur Merchant
- October - Sarah Biffen, painter (d. 1850)
- November 24 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States.
Deaths - July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
- August 21 - Junipero Serra, Spanish priest (b. 1713)
- September 8 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
- December 13 - Samuel Johnson, English writer
- December 26 - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader
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