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1783 was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (see link for calendar).
- recognizes United States independence.
- formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States Of America .
- February 4 - Earthquake in Calabria , Italy - 50.000 dead
- March 5 - Last celebration of Massacre Day .
- May 18 - Saint John , New Brunswick , Canada - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
- June 5 - The Montgolfier Brothers publicly demonstrate their ''montgolfière'' ( Hot Air Balloon ) in Annonay , France .
- June 8 - The Volcano Laki , in Iceland , begins an eight-month eruption which kills 9350 people and starts a seven-year Famine . Eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure.
- July 16 - Grants of land in Canada to American Loyalists announced.
- July 24 - Treaty Of Georgievsk between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom Of Kartli And Kakheti ( Georgia )
- August 5 - Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo Period Japan .
- - A Treaty between the United States and the Kingdom Of Great Britain is signed in Paris , ending the war.
- November 2 - In Rocky Hill, New Jersey , US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
- November 21 - In Paris , Jean-François Pilâtre De Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis D'Arlandes , make the first untethered Hot Air Balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5--- miles).
- troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty Of Paris .
- December 4 - At Fraunces Tavern in New York City , US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
Births
Deaths
- January 7 - William Tans'ur , English hymnist (b. 1700 )
- February 6 - Capability Brown , English landscape gardner (b. 1716 )
- March 23 - Charles Carroll , American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723 )
- March 30 - William Hunter , Scottish anatomist (b. 1718 )
- March 31 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin , Russian statesman (b. 1718 )
- April 16 - Benedict Joseph Labre , French saint (b. 1745 )
- April 16 - Christian Mayer , Czech astronomer (b. 1719 )
- May 23 - James Otis , American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725 )
- September 18 - Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1707 )
- September 18 - Benjamin Kennicott , English churchman and Hebrew scholar (b. 1718 )
- October 29 - Jean Le Rond D'Alembert , French mathematician (b. 1717 )
- November 22 - John Hanson , American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1715 )
- November 23 - Yoriyuki Arima , Japanese mathematician (b. 1714 )
- December 13 - Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin , Swedish astronomer (b. 1717 )
- December 16 - William James , British naval commander (b. 1720 )
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