1783 Calendar
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1783 Historical Event(s)
January 20, 1783
– The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
February 5, 1783
– In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
February 7, 1783
– American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
May 26, 1783
– A Great Jubilee Day held at Trumbull, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
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.
September 26, 1783
– The first battle of Shays’ Rebellion begins.
October 15, 1783
– The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
November 2, 1783
– In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.
November 3, 1783
– John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
November 4, 1783
– W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
Who Were Born On 1783?
January 20, 1783
– Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
February 9, 1783
– Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
February 10, 1783
– Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
March 8, 1783
– Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
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)