Today in History for Year 1784

Months in Year 1784: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 28 of 28

Jan 6th - Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
Jan 7th - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
Jan 14th - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
Jan 26th - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
Feb 4th - 1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland
Feb 22nd - 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
Feb 28th - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
Feb 29th - Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
Mar 1st - E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
Mar 5th - Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
Mar 22nd - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
Apr 29th - Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)
May 8th - Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
May 11th - England & Tippu Sahib van Mysore sign peace treaty
May 20th - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
May 22nd - Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy
May 25th - Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
Jun 4th - Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist.
Jun 9th - John Carroll appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions
Classical music prodigy Mozart Jun 16th - Holland forbids orange clothes
Jun 23rd - 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
Aug 13th - English parliament accept India Act
Aug 23rd - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
Sep 21st - 1st daily newspaper in America (Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser)
Sep 22nd - Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
Nov 1st - Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents
Nov 26th - Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.
Dec 21st - John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37

Jan 1st - William Beale, composer
Jan 27th - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
Jan 28th - George HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State
Jan 29th - Ferdinand Ries, composer
Jan 31st - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
Feb 3rd - John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
Feb 5th - Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
Feb 20th - Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
Feb 27th - Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)
Feb 27th - Job Plimpton, composer
Feb 29th - Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg)
Apr 5th - Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
Apr 13th - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder
Apr 13th - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
Apr 24th - Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
Apr 29th - Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1850)
Jul 22nd - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)
Jul 27th - Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer (chamber music)
Jul 27th - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
Aug 14th - Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat
Sep 7th - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
Oct 14th - Ferdinand VII MF, king of Spain
Oct 15th - Thomas Hastings, composer
Oct 15th - Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (d. 1849)
Oct 19th - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
Oct 19th - Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
Oct 20th - Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs
Nov 15th - Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
Nov 24th - Zachary Taylor, (Whig) 12th Pres (Mar 5, 1849-July 9, 1850)
Nov 28th - Ferdinand Reis, composer
Dec 1st - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer
Dec 7th - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
Dec 13th - Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
Dec 14th - Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806)
Dec 19th - Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
Dec 24th - Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803)
Dec 30th - Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 31 of 31

Jan 1st - Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67
Jan 11th - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59
Feb 13th - Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/min of For affairs, dies
Feb 24th - Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
Feb 28th - Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies
Apr 2nd - Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74
Apr 4th - Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies
Apr 10th - Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71
Apr 26th - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
Apr 30th - Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
May 12th - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
Jun 6th - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42
Jun 7th - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer, dies at 71
Jun 13th - Henry Middleton, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
Jun 29th - Caesar Rodney, US judge/singer (Declar of Independence), dies at 55
Jul 1st - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 73
Jul 8th - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
Jul 15th - Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies
Jul 31st - Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher, dies at 70
Enlightenment Philosopher Denis Diderot (Jul 31st) Aug 3rd - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer, dies at 78
Aug 6th - Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
Aug 10th - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter and artist (b. 1713)
Aug 14th - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
Aug 28th - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
Sep 4th - Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies
Sep 8th - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
Sep 27th - Boniface Stoecki, composer, dies at 38
Dec 5th - Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston
Dec 13th - Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
Dec 25th - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
Dec 26th - Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (b. 1743)