Page 2: Historical Events In 1783

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 18   On this day in history fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.   

Apr 19   George Washington proclaims end of hostilities on this day in history.   

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

May 03   In the year 1783 pieter Valck(x), South Netherlands sculptor, dies at 49   

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   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 on this day in history.   

May 22   Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer in the year 1783.   

May 23   James Otis, American lawyer, dies in the year 1783.   

May 30   In the year 1783 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   In the year 1783 montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)   

Jun 04   Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon (unmanned) in the year 1783.   

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   On this day in history joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight   

Jun 08   Joseph Lincke, composer on this day in history.   

Jun 08   On this day in history laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption   

Jun 19   On this day in history thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)   

Jun 29   In the year 1783 august Alexander Klengel, composer   

Jul 15   In the year 1783 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France   

Jul 24   On this day in history georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia   

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 on this day in history.   

Jul 29   Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000 on this day in history.   

Aug 06   Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70 in the year 1783.   

Aug 07   John Heathcoat, inventor (lace-making machinery) in the year 1783.   

Aug 27   1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude on this day in history.   

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Jan 12   Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet (Natthimmelen) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 20   On this day in history 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   Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842) was born in the year 1783.   

Jan 29   Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus) [NS=Feb 9] was born in the year 1783.   

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 in the year 1783.   

Jan 05   Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday in the year 1783.   

Jan 07   In the year 1783 death of william Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)   

Feb 06   In the year 1783 lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67   

Feb 10   James Nares, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1783.   

Mar 23   Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1783.   

Mar 30   William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718) died on this day in history.   

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

Apr 11   On this day in history nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64