In history, year 1783 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1783.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 05 february | The first of five strong earthquakes hit the region of Calabria On the Italian Peninsula killing more than 32,000 people over a period of nearly two months. |
| 15 march | A potential uprising in Newburgh, New York, was defused when George Washington asked Continental Army officers to support the supremacy of Congress. |
| 07 june | Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption,triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning. |
| 08 june | Laki, a volcano in Iceland started an 8 month-eruption. It poured out estimated 14 K.M.3 basalt lava and poisonous clouds of SO₂ and acid compounds. This calamity caused death of 50% of Iceland's livestock population. The volcanic eruption led to a famine which killed 25% population of Iceland. |
| 08 june | Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning. |
| 24 july | The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Russian Empire signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, establishing Georgia as a protectorate of Russia. |
| 04 august | A cataclysmic eruption of Mount Asama, the most active volcanoin Japan, killed roughly 1,400 people and exacerbated a famine,resulting in another 20,000 deaths. |
| 18 august | An unusually bright meteor procession blazed across the nightsky over Great Britain. |
| 03 september | Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris,formally ending the American Revolutionary War. |
| 03 September | The Revolutionary War ended with the Treaty of Paris between the US and Britain. |
| 21 November | For the first time man attempted to fly in the sky by balloon or balloon. There were two people in this balloon, one of them was the physicist Duirez of France. Duarez had planned to fly from the time of his education. |
| 04 February | A massive earthquake in Calabria, Italy, killed 50,000 people. |
| 05 February | 30,000 people died in a severe earthquake in Calabria, Italy. |
| 01 February | William Herschel announced Lambda Hercules as the star. |
| 05 March | King Stanislaus Agustus Ponietowski gave rights to the Jews of Kovno. |
| 03 April | Sweden and the US signed a treaty of amity and commerce. |
| 30 May | The first daily newspaper in America was published from Philadelphia's Benjamin Tower. |
| 08 June | The Lucky Volcano 8-month eruption began in southern Iceland. |
| 24 July | Georgia was made patron of Russia. |
| 27 August | Jacques Charles and Les Frères Robert launched the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon, Le Globe, in Paris. |
| 09 September | Dickinson College was founded in Carlcel, Pennsylvania. |
| 03 October | The first Waterford crystal glass making business started in Waterford, Ireland. |
| 25 November | American Revolutionary War: The last British troops left New York City after 3 months of signing the Treaty of Paris. |
| 04 December | US General George Washington formally bid farewell to his officers at Frances Tavon, New York City. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 03 April | Washington Irving / Writer / United States of America |
| 08 September | N. F. S. Grundtvig / Philosopher / Denmark |
| 09 February | Vasily Zhukovsky / Poet / Russia |
| 17 September | Nadezhda Durova / Soldier / Russia |
| 19 June | Friedrich Sertürner / Chemist / Germany |
| 20 January | Friedrich Dotzauer / Composer / Germany |
| 21 July | Charles Tristan / General / France |
| 22 May | William Sturgeon / Physicist / United Kingdom |
| 23 August | William Tierney Clark / Engineer / United Kingdom |
| 23 January | Stendhal / Novelist / France |
| 24 June | Johann Heinrich von Thünen / Economist / Germany |
| 24 July | Simón Bolívar / Politician / Venezuela |
| 25 January | William Colgate / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 25 May | Philip Pendleton Barbour / Politician / United States of America |
| 26 September | Richard Griffin / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 27 September | Agustín de Iturbide / Emperor / Mexico |
| 29 April | David Cox / Painter / United Kingdom |