Page 2: Historical Events In 1783

Apr 09   Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India.   

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

Apr 11   Congress declares end of war with Great Britain.   

Apr 11   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.   

Apr 19   George Washington proclaims end of hostilities.   

Apr 29   David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)   

May 03   Pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49   

May 04   Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus.   

May 09   Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader   

May 10   Niccola Benvenuti, composer   

May 18   inaugural United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.   

May 22   Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer   

May 23   James Otis, American lawyer, dies   

May 30   In this year, Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US   

May 30   In this year, Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes inaugural daily newspaper in US.   

Jun 04   Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned).   

Jun 04   Montgolfier brothers launch inaugural hot-air balloon (unmanned).   

Jun 05   Brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air baloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.   

Jun 05   Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight   

Jun 05   Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make inaugural public balloon flight.   

Jun 08   Joseph Lincke, composer.   

Jun 08   Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption   

Jun 19   Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)   

Jun 29   August Alexander Klengel, composer   

Jul 15   1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France   

Jul 24   Georgia is recorded as becoming a protectorate of tsarist Russia   

Jul 24   Simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule   

Jul 27   Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62   

Jul 29   Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9000.   

Aug 06   Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70.   

Aug 07   John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery)   

Aug 27   1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude   

Aug 27   The inaugural hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude.   

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Jan 12   Erik gustaf geijer: Swedish historian/poet (natthimmelen)   

Jan 20   Justus johann friedrich dotzauer: German cellist and composer    

Jan 23   Stendahl: [marie henri beyle], france, writer (le rouge et de noir)   

Jan 23   Stendhal: French writer   

Jan 29   Vasili a zjukovski: Russian folk poet/translator (homerus) [ns=feb 9]   

Feb 09   Vasili a zjukovski: Russian folk poet/translator (homer) [os=jan 29]   

Feb 09   Vasily zhukovsky: Russian poet    

Feb 10   Fyodor petrovich tolstoy: Russian painter    

Jan 05   Friedrich wilhelm reidt: Composer,    

Jan 07   William tans'ur: English hymnist (b. 1700)   

Feb 06   Lancelot "capability" brown: English architect (kew),   

Feb 10   James nares: Composer,   

Mar 23   Gaspard fritz: Composer,    

Mar 30   William hunter: Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)   

Apr 07   Ignaz jakob holzbauer: Composer,    

Apr 11   Nikita i panin: Russian earl/ambassador in denmark,