1783 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1783?
- January 20, 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence).
- February 3, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
- February 5, 1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
- March 15, 1783 – 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'état never takes place.
- April 15, 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
- May 18, 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
- May 26, 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at Trumbull, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
- June 4, 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
- June 8, 1783 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
- June 22, 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- July 25, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- September 3, 1783 – American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- October 15, 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, (tethered balloon).
- November 3, 1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
- November 4, 1783 – W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
- November 21, 1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
- November 30, 1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
- December 4, 1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
- December 23, 1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
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