Historical Events In 1783

Apr 08   John Claudius, London England, horticulturist in the year 1783.  

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

Apr 10   Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10) in the year 1783.  

Apr 11   Congress declares end of war with Great Britain on this day in history.  

Apr 11   Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

Apr 18   Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began on this day in history.  

Apr 19   In the year 1783 george Washington proclaims end of hostilities  

Apr 29   In the year 1783 david Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)  

May 03   Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49 in the year 1783.  

May 04   Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus on this day in history.  

May 09   Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader on this day in history.  

May 10   In the year 1783 niccola Benvenuti, composer  

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

May 22   Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer on this day in history.  

May 23   In the year 1783 james Otis, American lawyer, dies  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Jun 05   In the year 1783 brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air baloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France  

Jun 05   Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight on this day in history.  

Jun 05   In the year 1783 joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight  

Jun 08   Joseph Lincke, composer in the year 1783.  

Jun 08   Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption in the year 1783.  

Jun 19   Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria) in the year 1783.  

Jun 29   August Alexander Klengel, composer in the year 1783.  

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

Jul 24   Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia on this day in history.  

Jul 24   On this day in history simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule  

Jul 27   Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 in the year 1783.  

Jul 29   Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 in the year 1783.  

Aug 06   On this day in history willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70  

Aug 07   On this day in history john Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)  

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

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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   Stendahl, [Marie Henri Beyle], France, writer (Le Rouge et de Noir) was born in the year 1783.  

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

Jan 29   Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9] was born in the year 1783.  

Feb 09   Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homer) [OS=Jan 29] was born on this day in history.  

Feb 09   Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852) was born on this day in history.  

Feb 10   On this day in history birth of fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)  

Jan 05   Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday in the year 1783.  

Jan 07   On this day in history death of william Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)  

Feb 06   In the year 1783 lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67  

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   In the year 1783 death of william Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)  

Apr 07   In the year 1783 ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71  

Apr 11   Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 on this day in history.