Page 2: Historical Events In 1783

Apr 08   John Claudius, London England, horticulturist on this day in history.   

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) on this day in history.   

Apr 11   Congress declares end of war with Great Britain in the year 1783.   

Apr 11   In the year 1783 nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64   

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

Apr 19   George Washington proclaims end of hostilities in the year 1783.   

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

May 03   On this day in history 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   First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States in the year 1783.   

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

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   In the year 1783 benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in US   

Jun 04   Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned) in the year 1783.   

Jun 04   In the year 1783 montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned)   

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

Jun 08   On this day in history joseph Lincke, composer   

Jun 08   In the year 1783 laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption   

Jun 19   In the year 1783 thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)   

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

Jul 24   Simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule on this day in history.   

Jul 27   Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

Jul 29   On this day in history skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000   

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

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   On this day in history birth of erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen)   

Jan 20   On this day in history 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   In the year 1783 birth of stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)   

Jan 29   Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9] was born on this day in history.   

Feb 09   Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homer) [OS=Jan 29] was born in the year 1783.   

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

Feb 10   Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873) was born in the year 1783.   

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

Jan 07   In the year 1783 death of william Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)   

Feb 06   On this day in history lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67   

Feb 10   In the year 1783 james Nares, composer, dies at 67   

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

Mar 30   On this day in history death of william Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)   

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