Today in History for Year 1783

Months in Year 1783: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 44 of 44

Jan 14th - Congress ratifies peace treaty between US & England
Jan 20th - Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War
Feb 1st - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
Feb 3rd - Spain recognizes US independence
Feb 4th - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
Feb 5th - Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000
Feb 5th - Sweden recognizes US independence
Mar 5th - King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
Mar 15th - 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 3rd - Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
Apr 8th - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
Apr 9th - Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
Apr 18th - Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
May 4th - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
May 18th - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
May 30th - Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
Jun 4th - Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
Jun 5th - Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
Jun 8th - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
First US President George Washington Jul 15th - 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
Jul 24th - Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia
Jul 29th - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000
Aug 27th - 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
Sep 3rd - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US Revolutionary War)
Sep 26th - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
Oct 6th - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
Oct 15th - Jean Pilstre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
Nov 1st - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"
Nov 2nd - General George Washington, later 1st American President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War
Nov 3rd - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
Nov 3rd - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
Nov 4th - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria.
Nov 21st - Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
Nov 23rd - Annapolis Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
Classical music prodigy Mozart Nov 25th - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US
Dec 1st - Jacques Charles & Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
Dec 4th - Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
Dec 7th - Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
Dec 7th - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British Premier
Dec 9th - 1st execution at English Newgate-jail
Dec 18th - English king George III fires government of Portland
Dec 19th - English government of Pitt Jr forms
Dec 23rd - General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress
Dec 31st - Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 12th - Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen)
Jan 20th - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
Jan 23rd - Stendhal, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)
Jan 29th - Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9]
Feb 9th - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)
Feb 10th - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
Feb 11th - Jarena Lee, African American travelling minister
Feb 15th - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
Feb 21st - Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
Mar 8th - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
Mar 8th - Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of pres Martin (1837-41) (died 1819)
Mar 26th - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
Apr 3rd - Washington Irving, US writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
Apr 8th - John Claudius, London England, horticulturist
Apr 10th - Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
Apr 29th - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
May 9th - Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
May 10th - Niccola Benvenuti, composer
May 22nd - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
May 25th - Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
Jun 8th - Joseph Lincke, composer
Jun 19th - Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
Jun 29th - August Alexander Klengel, composer
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolivar (Jul 24th) Jul 24th - Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela, political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), (d. 1830)
Aug 7th - John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)
Aug 7th - Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
Aug 9th - Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
Aug 23rd - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
Sep 8th - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872)
Sep 17th - Samuel Prout, water-color painter
Sep 27th - Agustin I de Iturbide, emperor of Mexico (1822-23)
Oct 13th - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
Dec 11th - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
Dec 12th - Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
Dec 14th - Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
Dec 19th - Charles-Julien Brianchon, France, mathematician (Brianchon's theorem)
Dec 28th - Robert Gallenberg, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 25 of 25

Jan 5th - Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday
Jan 7th - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
Feb 6th - Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67
Feb 10th - James Nares, composer, dies at 67
Mar 23rd - Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67
Mar 30th - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
Apr 7th - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
Apr 11th - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64
Apr 16th - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
May 3rd - Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49
May 23rd - James Otis, American lawyer, dies
Jul 27th - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
Aug 6th - Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70
Sep 6th - Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (b. 1710)
Sep 7th - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies
Sep 18th - Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies
Sep 18th - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718)
Sep 27th - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (b. 1730)
Oct 29th - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosophe/mathematician, dies at 66
Enlightenment Philosophe Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert (Oct 29th) Nov 22nd - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
Nov 23rd - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
Dec 13th - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717)
Dec 16th - Johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84
Dec 16th - Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
Dec 20th - Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54