1783 - What happened in 1783 ?

January 1783

Monday 20:

Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War.

February 1783

Monday 03:

American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.

Tuesday 04:

American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom formally declares that it will cease hostilities with the United States of America.

March 1783

Saturday 15:

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'etat never takes place.

April 1783

Tuesday 15:

Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.

May 1783

Sunday 18:

First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.

June 1783

Thursday 05:

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

Sunday 08:

The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.

July 1783

Wednesday 16:

Grants of land in Canada to American United Empire Loyalists are announced.

August 1783

Sunday 03:

Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.

September 1783

Wednesday 03:

A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.

November 1783

Sunday 02:

In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".

Monday 03:

The Continental Army is disbanded.

Friday 07:

A man convicted of forgery is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

Friday 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: 100m, distance: 9 km).

Tuesday 25:

American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

December 1783

Thursday 04:

At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.

Tuesday 23:

George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at Annapolis, Maryland.