Page 2: Historical Events In 1783

Apr 08   In the year 1783 john Claudius, London England, horticulturist   

Apr 09   Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 18   On this day in history 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   In the year 1783 david Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)   

May 03   Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

May 04   Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus in the year 1783.   

May 09   Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader in the year 1783.   

May 10   On this day in history 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 in the year 1783.   

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

May 30   In the year 1783 benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US   

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

Jun 04   In the year 1783 montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)   

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

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

Jun 05   In the year 1783 joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight   

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

Jun 08   In the year 1783 joseph Lincke, composer   

Jun 08   Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption on this day in history.   

Jun 19   On this day in history thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)   

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

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   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   In the year 1783 willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70   

Aug 07   In the year 1783 john Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)   

Aug 27   1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude in the year 1783.   

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Jan 12   On this day in history birth of erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen)   

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   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 in the year 1783.   

Feb 09   In the year 1783 birth of vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homer) [OS=Jan 29]   

Feb 09   In the year 1783 birth of vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852)   

Feb 10   Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873) was born on this day in history.   

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

Feb 10   James Nares, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Mar 23   Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1783.   

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.