1783

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Year 1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1783
2 Births
- 2.1 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
- 3.1 Unknown dates

[edit] Events of 1783

[edit] January - June

February 3 - American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.

February 4: Earthquake in Calabria.

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.

June: French balloon montgolfière.

Effects of the Laki volcano were felt all over Europe. New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of "the greatest environmental catastrophies in European History" (See BBC.co.uk website for the programme "Timewatch: Killer Cloud" - broadcast BBC2 19th Jan 2007).

[edit] July - December

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.

[edit] Undated

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

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**1783 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1783 MDCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2536
Armenian calendar	1232 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-61 – -60
Buddhist calendar	2327
Chinese calendar	4419/4479-11-28 (壬寅年十一月廿八日) — to — 4420/4480-12-8 (癸卯年十二月初八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1775 – 1776
Hebrew calendar	5543 – 5544
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1838 – 1839
- Shaka Samvat	1705 – 1706
- Kali Yuga	4884 – 4885
Holocene calendar	11783
Iranian calendar	1161 – 1162
Islamic calendar	1197 – 1198
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 3 (天明3年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2443 (皇紀2443年)
- Jōmon Era	11783
Julian calendar	1828
Korean calendar	4116
Thai solar calendar	2326
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