List of 1784 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1784
Date | Event |
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January 14, 1784 | American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain. |
March 11, 1784 | The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end. |
March 22, 1784 | The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. |
April 9, 1784 | The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784. |
June 4, 1784 | Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated). |
August 14, 1784 | Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit. The consequent subjugation of the Alutiiq on Kodiak Island allows Shelikhov to establish the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay. |
August 17, 1784 | Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón. |
August 23, 1784 | Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years. |
October 22, 1784 | Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska. |