Page 2: Historical Events In 1783

Apr 08   John Claudius, London England, horticulturist on this day in history.   

Apr 09   On this day in history tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India   

Apr 10   On this day in history hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)   

Apr 11   Congress declares end of war with Great Britain in the year 1783.   

Apr 11   Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

Apr 18   In the year 1783 fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.   

Apr 19   George Washington proclaims end of hostilities in the year 1783.   

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

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

May 04   Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus on this day in history.   

May 09   On this day in history alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader   

May 10   Niccola Benvenuti, composer on this day in history.   

May 18   On this day in history first United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.   

May 22   Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer on this day in history.   

May 23   On this day in history james Otis, American lawyer, dies   

May 30   On this day in history 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   Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned) in the year 1783.   

Jun 04   On this day in history montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned)   

Jun 05   In the year 1783 brothers Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier publicly demonstrate their hot-air baloon in 10-minute flight over Annonay, France   

Jun 05   Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight on this day in history.   

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

Jun 08   On this day in history 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) in the year 1783.   

Jun 29   In the year 1783 august Alexander Klengel, composer   

Jul 15   1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France on this day in history.   

Jul 24   Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia on this day in history.   

Jul 24   Simon Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule in the year 1783.   

Jul 27   Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 in the year 1783.   

Jul 29   In the year 1783 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   John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery) in the year 1783.   

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

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

Jan 20   Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860) was born in the year 1783.   

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 on this day in history.   

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   William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700) died in the year 1783.   

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   Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Mar 30   In the year 1783 death of william Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)   

Apr 07   Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Apr 11   Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64 on this day in history.