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). [edit] Events of 1783 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December - July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists are announced.
- July 24 – The Treaty of Georgievsk is signed between the Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti (Georgia).
- August 5 – Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
- August 27 – Le Globe - Jacques Charles and Les Frères Robert launched the world's first hydrogen filled balloon in Paris.
- September 3 – American Revolutionary War – Treaty of Paris: A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
- September 9 – Dickinson College was chartered in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
- October 3 – The Waterford Glassware Factory begins production in Waterford City, Ireland.
- 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: 900 m).
- November 24 – In Spain, the Cedula of Population is signed, stating that anyone who will swear fealty to Spain, and is of the Roman Catholic faith, is welcome to populate Trinidad and Tobago.
- November 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City 3 months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
- November 30 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey.
- December 1 – La Charlière - Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert made the first manned flight in a hydrogen filled balloon in Paris.
- December 4 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
[edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] 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
- May 23 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
- September 18
- October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- November – Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (b. 1741 )
- 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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