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1783 Calendar

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•  February 3, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
•  February 5, 1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
•  May 18, 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
•  June 8, 1783 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
•  July 25, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
•  September 26, 1783 – The first battle of Shays’ Rebellion begins.
•  November 2, 1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.
•  November 21, 1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
•  December 4, 1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
•  December 23, 1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

•  February 10, 1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
•  February 21, 1783 – Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
•  March 8, 1783 – Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
•  April 3, 1783 – Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
•  April 10, 1783 – Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen consort of Holland (d. 1837)
•  May 25, 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
•  August 9, 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
•  August 23, 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
•  September 8, 1783 – Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
•  December 12, 1783 – Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)