List of 1783 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1783
Date | Event |
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January 20, 1783 | The Kingdom of Great Britain signs preliminary articles of peace with the Kingdom of France, setting the stage for the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year. |
February 3, 1783 | Spain–United States relations are first established. |
February 5, 1783 | In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. |
February 7, 1783 | American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar. |
March 15, 1783 | In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place. |
April 18, 1783 | Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. |
May 18, 1783 | First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States. |
May 26, 1783 | A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrates the end of fighting in the American Revolution. |
June 4, 1783 | The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). |
June 8, 1783 | Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. |
June 22, 1783 | A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France. |
July 25, 1783 | American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement. |
August 4, 1783 | Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths. |
August 18, 1783 | A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. |
September 3, 1783 | American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
October 15, 1783 | The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. |
November 3, 1783 | The American Continental Army is disbanded. |
November 4, 1783 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria. |
November 21, 1783 | In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. |
November 25, 1783 | American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. |
November 29, 1783 | A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey. |
December 4, 1783 | At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers. |
December 19, 1783 | William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 24. |
December 23, 1783 | George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. |