1783

1783 (MDCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1783rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 783rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1780s decade. As of the start of 1783, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1750s  1760s  1770s  – 1780s –  1790s  1800s  1810s
Years:	1780 1781 1782 – 1783 – 1784 1785 1786

1783 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1783 MDCCLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2536
Armenian calendar	1232 ԹՎ ՌՄԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6533
Balinese saka calendar	1704–1705
Bengali calendar	1190
Berber calendar	2733
British Regnal year	23 Geo. 3 – 24 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2327
Burmese calendar	1145
Byzantine calendar	7291–7292
Chinese calendar	壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4479 or 4419     — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4480 or 4420
Coptic calendar	1499–1500
Discordian calendar	2949
Ethiopian calendar	1775–1776
Hebrew calendar	5543–5544
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1839–1840
- Shaka Samvat	1704–1705
- Kali Yuga	4883–4884
Holocene calendar	11783
Igbo calendar	783–784
Iranian calendar	1161–1162
Islamic calendar	1197–1198
Japanese calendar	Tenmei 3 (天明３年)
Javanese calendar	1708–1710
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4116
Minguo calendar	129 before ROC 民前129年
Nanakshahi calendar	315
Thai solar calendar	2325–2326
Tibetan calendar	阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1909 or 1528 or 756     — to — 阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) 1910 or 1529 or 757

Events

• February 3 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes the independence of the United States.
• February 4 – American Revolutionary War: the Government of the United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.
• February 4 – Earthquake in Calabria, Italy – 50.000 dead
• March 5 – Last celebration of Massacre Day.
• May 18 – Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada– First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown.
• June 5 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon) in Annonay, France.
• June 8 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills 9350 people and starts a seven-year famine. Eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure.
• July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to American loyalists announced.
• August 5 – Mount Asama erupts, causing turmoil in Edo period Japan.
• September 3 – American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris – the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain sign a treaty in Paris, ending the war.
• November 2 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, American general George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
• November 21 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 5* miles).
• November 25 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• December 4 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US general George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.

• City of Sevastopol founded;
• United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States;
• Treaty of Versailles signed, ending hostilities between the Franco-Spanish Alliance and the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
• Loyalists from New York settle Great Abaco in the Bahamas.

Births

• January 23 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
• March 8 – Hannah Van Buren, First Lady of the United States (d. 1819)
• April 3 – Washington Irving, American writer (d. 1859)
• April 10 – Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III of France (d. 1837)
• July 24 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan patriot, revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1830).
• September 17 – Samuel Prout, English painter (d. 1852)