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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 ...
July 16 – Grants of land in Canada to Loyalists are announced.; September 3 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war and formally granting the United States independence from Great Britain.
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 ...
Towards the end of the struggle, from November 26, 1783, to June 3, 1784, the state's capital Annapolis, briefly served as the capital of the fledgling confederation government (1781-1789) of the United States of America, and it was in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis that General George Washington ...
On September 3 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed between Britain, Spain, France, and the United States. The agreement marked the independence of United States and official boundaries were ...
A. Edward Henry à Court-Repington; Paul Abadie Sr. Mariano Abasolo; John Lovejoy Abbot; James Adams (Latter Day Saints) William Adams (oculist) George Thomas d'Aguilar
Harris, Michael C. Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777. 2014. ISBN 9781611211627. Houpt, David W. To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania (U of Virginia Press, 2023) online book review; Knouff, Gregory T.
Portrait of Laurens by John Singleton Copley (U.S. National Portrait Gallery NPG.65.45). Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American Founding Father, [1] [2] [3] merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War.