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1783

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 17th century18th century19th century
Decades: 1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –   1790s   1800s   1810s
Years: 1780 1781 178217831784 1785 1786
1783 in topic:
Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature ( Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries:   Canada – Great Britain – United States
Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

Events of 1783

January - June

February 4: Earthquake in Calabria.
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"

July - December

Undated

  • City of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean peninsula of Russian Empire.
  • 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.
  • Ireland's last grey wolf was killed.

Births

1783 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1783
MDCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita 2536
Armenian calendar 1232
ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ
Assyrian calendar 6533
Bahá'í calendar -61–-60
Bengali calendar 1190
Berber calendar 2733
British Regnal year 23 Geo. 3 – 24 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2327
Burmese calendar 1145
Byzantine calendar 7291–7292
Chinese calendar 壬寅年十一月廿八日
(4419/4479-11-28)
— to —
癸卯年十二月初八日
(4420/4480-12-8)
Coptic calendar 1499–1500
Ethiopian calendar 1775–1776
Hebrew calendar 5543–5544
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1839–1840
 - Shaka Samvat 1705–1706
 - Kali Yuga 4884–4885
Holocene calendar 11783
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 783–784
Iranian calendar 1161–1162
Islamic calendar 1197–1198
Japanese calendar Tenmei 3
(天明3年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4116
Minguo calendar 129 before ROC
民前129年
Thai solar calendar 2326
  • January 20 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
  • January 23 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
  • March 8 - Hannah Van Buren (d. 1819)
  • April 3 - Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
  • July 24 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830).
  • September 17 - Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)
  • date unknown
    • Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner, German chemist (d. 1857)
    • Nadezhda Durova, First female Russian army officer (d. 1866)

Deaths

  • January 7 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
  • February 6 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
  • March 23 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
  • March 30 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
  • March 31 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
  • April 16
    • Benedict Joseph Labre, French saint (b. 1745)
    • Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
  • May 23 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
  • September 18
    • Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707)
    • Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
  • October 29 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
  • November 22 - John Hanson, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1715)
  • November 23 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
  • December 13 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
  • December 16 - William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
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