Page 2: Historical Events In 1783

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

Apr 09   In the year 1783 tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India   

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 in the year 1783.   

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 in the year 1783.   

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

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

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

May 09   In the year 1783 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 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   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   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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1783 joseph Lincke, composer   

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 on this day in history.   

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   Simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule in the year 1783.   

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

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

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

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Jan 12   In the year 1783 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   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   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   Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (d. 1852) was born on this day in history.   

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 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 on this day in history.   

Mar 23   In the year 1783 gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67   

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

Apr 07   Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1783.   

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