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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 ...
John Adams Famous Bostonian and Son of Liberty member, wrote the Navy's Code of Discipline. Additionally, through the Continental Congress commissioned the first war ships for defending the Colonies and seizing British resources from reaching enemy troops. [68]
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician and physicist, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there. [21] Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian polymath, scientist and writer, worked in Saint Petersburg and died there; Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806) a French painter. [22]
John Bacon (died 1783), New Jersey privateer and marauder who preyed on Patriots in and around the Pine Barrens and South East New Jersey; Thomas Henry Barclay (1753–1830), New York City lawyer and later Governor of Nova Scotia; Richard Bayley (1745–1801), New York physician and father of American-born saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
In 1783, Henry Harford, the last proprietarial governor of Maryland and the illegitimate son of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, attempted to recover his estates in Maryland which had been confiscated during the American Revolution, where he was a witness to George Washington's resignation of command at Annapolis.
1782–1783 Pierpont Edwards: 1788 Oliver Ellsworth [2] 1778–1781: 1781–1783 ... The following table lists the 90 people who were elected to Congress: 1st ...
August 19 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German sculptor most famous for his collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions (born 1736) August 29 – William Wynne Ryland, English engraver (born 1738) November 19 – Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French painter who specialized in portraits executed in pastels (born 1715) date ...