Page 2: 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 on this day in history.   

Apr 10   On this day in history 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   Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began on this day in history.   

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

Apr 29   David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting) in the year 1783.   

May 03   On this day in history pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49   

May 04   In the year 1783 herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus   

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

May 10   In the year 1783 niccola Benvenuti, composer   

May 18   In the year 1783 first United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.   

May 22   Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer in the year 1783.   

May 23   James Otis, American lawyer, dies on this day in history.   

May 30   Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US in the year 1783.   

May 30   On this day in history 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   Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned) in the year 1783.   

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   In the year 1783 joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight   

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

Jun 08   Joseph Lincke, composer on this day in history.   

Jun 08   In the year 1783 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   August Alexander Klengel, composer in the year 1783.   

Jul 15   1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France on this day in history.   

Jul 24   Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia in the year 1783.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 23   Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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   William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700) died in the year 1783.   

Feb 06   Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67 in the year 1783.   

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

Mar 23   On this day in history gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67   

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   Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 in the year 1783.