Historical Events In 1783

Apr 08   On this day in history john Claudius, London England, horticulturist  

Apr 09   Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India in the year 1783.  

Apr 10   In the year 1783 hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)  

Apr 11   On this day in history congress declares end of war with Great Britain  

Apr 11   On this day in history nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64  

Apr 18   In the year 1783 fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.  

Apr 19   George Washington proclaims end of hostilities on this day in history.  

Apr 29   David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting) on this day in history.  

May 03   In the year 1783 pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49  

May 04   On this day in history herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus  

May 09   On this day in history alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader  

May 10   In the year 1783 niccola Benvenuti, composer  

May 18   On this day in history first United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.  

May 22   In the year 1783 thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer  

May 23   James Otis, American lawyer, dies in the year 1783.  

May 30   Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US on this day in history.  

May 30   Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in US in the year 1783.  

Jun 04   On this day in history montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)  

Jun 04   Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned) on this day in history.  

Jun 05   Brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air baloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France on this day in history.  

Jun 05   Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight in the year 1783.  

Jun 05   On this day in history joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight  

Jun 08   On this day in history joseph Lincke, composer  

Jun 08   On this day in history laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption  

Jun 19   Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria) on this day in history.  

Jun 29   On this day in history august Alexander Klengel, composer  

Jul 15   In the year 1783 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France  

Jul 24   On this day in history georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia  

Jul 24   In the year 1783 simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule  

Jul 27   On this day in history johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62  

Jul 29   In the year 1783 skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000  

Aug 06   Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

Aug 07   John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery) in the year 1783.  

Aug 27   On this day in history 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude  

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Jan 12   Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 20   In the year 1783 birth of justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)  

Jan 23   On this day in history birth of stendahl, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir)  

Jan 23   Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842) was born in the year 1783.  

Jan 29   On this day in history birth of vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9]  

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homer) [OS=Jan 29]  

Feb 09   On this day in history birth of vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)  

Feb 10   In the year 1783 birth of fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)  

Jan 05   Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday on this day in history.  

Jan 07   William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700) died on this day in history.  

Feb 06   Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67 on this day in history.  

Feb 10   James Nares, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1783.  

Mar 23   Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Mar 30   William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718) died in the year 1783.  

Apr 07   Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Apr 11   On this day in history nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64