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1784 Historical Event(s)
January 14, 1784
– American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
February 28, 1784
– John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
March 11, 1784
– The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
March 22, 1784
– The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
August 23, 1784
– Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
September 22, 1784
– Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
October 22, 1784
– Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
November 26, 1784
– The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
Who Were Born On 1784?
February 5, 1784
– Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
April 24, 1784
– Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
July 22, 1784
– Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
October 14, 1784
– King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
October 15, 1784
– Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
October 19, 1784
– James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859)
December 7, 1784
– Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
December 13, 1784
– Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
December 19, 1784
– Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
December 24, 1784
– Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803)