1783

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1780
  • 1781
  • 1782
  • 1783
  • 1784
  • 1785
  • 1786
1783 in various
Minguo calendar
129 before ROC
民前129年
Nanakshahi calendar315
Thai solar calendar2325–2326
Tibetan calendar阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
1909 or 1528 or 756
    — to —
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
1910 or 1529 or 757
The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes off from the Bois de Boulogne, on November 21, 1783

1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1783rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 783rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1783, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

December 23: General George Washington Resigning His Commission
  • King George III to call Washington "the greatest character of the age."[8]
  • December 31Louis-Sébastien Lenormand makes the first ever recorded public demonstration of a parachute descent, by jumping from the tower of the Montpellier Observatory in France, using his rigid-framed model, which he intends as a form of fire escape.

Date unknown

Births

Washington Irving
John Crawfurd
Simón Bolívar

Deaths

Capability Brown
Leonhard Euler

References

  1. ^ Cobbett, William, ed. (1814). The Parliamentary History of England: From the Earliest Period to Year 1803, Vol. XXIII: The Parliamentary Debates, 10 May 1782 to 1 December 1783. London: T. C. Hansard. pp. 346–354.
  2. ^ Laws of the United States of America; from the 4th of March, 1789, to the 4th of March, 1815, Vol. 1. Weightman. 1815. p. 708.
  3. ^ a b c Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, ed. by Benson John Lossing and Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167
  4. ^ Klerkäng, Anne (1958). Sweden – America's First Friend. Örebro.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Includes fascimile reproduction of treaty text.
  5. ^ Bressan, David. "8, June 1783: The Laki eruptions". Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  6. ^ "Palau". Archived from the original on December 26, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  7. ^ Fleming, Thomas. "The Most Important Moment in American History". History News Network. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  8. .
  9. ^ "Washington Irving – American author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  10. OCLC 155604573
    .; re-printed 2015 by Facsimile Publisher and distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi.
  11. ^ "Samuel Prout (1783–1852)". artuk.org. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  12. ^ "CALCRAFT, Thomas (1738-83), of Ancaster, Lincs. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  13. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus, ed., Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie, p.289

Further reading

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