Notable Historical Events - 1783
1783 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 20 |
Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War |
Feb 1 |
William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex |
Feb 3 |
Spain recognizes US independence |
Feb 4 |
Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy) |
Feb 5 |
Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 |
Feb 5 |
Sweden recognizes US independence |
Mar 5 |
King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno |
Mar 10 |
USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral |
Mar 15 |
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place. |
Apr 3 |
Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce |
Apr 8 |
Catharina II of Russia annexes the Crimea. [What goes around comes around.] |
Apr 9 |
Tippu Sahib drives out British from Bednore, India |
Apr 18 |
Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began. |
May 2 |
Architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant is promoted by brevet to Major of Engineers in recognition of his service to American liberty |
May 4 |
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus |
May 18 |
First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States. |
May 30 |
Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US |
Jun 4 |
Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned) |
Jun 5 |
Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight |
Jun 8 |
Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption |
Jul 15 |
1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France |
Jul 24 |
Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia |
Jul 29 |
Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 |
Aug 27 |
First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude |
Sep 3 |
Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America |
Sep 26 |
Fayette County, Pennsylvania created |
Oct 6 |
Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock |
Oct 15 |
Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent |
Nov 2 |
General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War |
Nov 3 |
Washington orders Continental Army disbanded |
Nov 3 |
John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows. |
Nov 4 |
W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria. |
Nov 21 |
Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight |
Nov 23 |
Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784) |
Nov 25 |
Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States |
Dec 1 |
Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris |
Dec 4 |
Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC |
Dec 7 |
Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London |
Dec 7 |
William Pitt Jr (24) becomes the youngest ever British Prime Minister |
Dec 9 |
1st execution at Newgate Jail in London |
Dec 18 |
British King George III dissmisses government of Portland |
Dec 19 |
British government of William Pitt the Younger forms |
Dec 23 |
General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress |
Dec 31 |
Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states |
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