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Year 1783 (''' MDCCLXXXIII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS OF 1783

January - June

: Earthquake in Calabria .]]

recognizes United States independence.

February 4

--- formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States Of America .

---An Earthquake in Calabria , Italy , leaves 50,000 dead.

March 5 - Last celebration of Massacre Day .

April 15 - Preliminary articles of peace ending American Revolutionary War ratified.

May 18 - Saint John , New Brunswick , Canada - First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown .

June 4 or 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.

: Effects of the Laki Volcano were felt all over Europe . New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of "the greatest environmental catastrophies in European History "

July - December

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.

Undated

City of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimea n peninsula of Russian Empire .

United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States .

Treaty Of Versailles is signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England .

Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas .

BIRTHS

January 20 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer , German cellist and composer (d. 1860 )

January 23 - Stendhal , French writer (d. 1842 )

March 8 - Hannah Van Buren , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1819 )

April 3 - Washington Irving , American author (d. 1859 )

April 10 - Hortense De Beauharnais , Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III Of France (d. 1837 )

July 24 - Simón Bolívar , Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830 ).

September 17 - Samuel Prout , English painter (d. 1852 )

''date unknown''

--- Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner , German chemist (d. 1857 )

--- Nadezhda Durova , First female Russian army officer (d. 1866 )

: ''See also .''

DEATHS

January 7 - William Tans'ur , English hymnist (b. 1700 )

February 6 - Capability Brown , English landscape gardener (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 )

--- 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 )

--- 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 )

: ''See also .''