1783 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s – 1780s – 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years:	1780 1781 1782 – 1783 – 1784 1785 1786

Events

February 3 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
February 4 – American Revolutionary War: Great Britain 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.
August 5 – Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
September 3 – American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris – 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).
November 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British 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.

City of Sevastopol founded;
United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States;
Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and England.
Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.

Births

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 writer (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)

Images for kids

The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes off from the Bois de Boulogne, on November 21, 1783
December 23: General George Washington Resigning His Commission
Washington Irving
John Crawfurd
Simón Bolívar
Capability Brown
Leonhard Euler