1783

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s - 1780s - 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

Years: 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 - 1783 - 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788

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

• Montgolfiers demonstrate their hot-air balloon in Annonay, France;
• City of Sevastopol founded;
• Treaty of Paris signed, ending the American Revolution;
• United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States;
• Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilites between the Franco-Spanish Alliance[?] and England.

Births

• January 23 - Stendhal, writer
• March 8 - Hannah Van Buren[?], First Lady
• April 3 - Washington Irving, American author
• April 10 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France.

Deaths

• October 29 - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician