* 1710 – Caffarelli, Italian castrato and opera singer ( d. 1783 )

* 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War ( or American War of Independence ) are ratified.

* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia ( d. 1801 )

* 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35, 000 people.

* 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom ( d. 1810 )

* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

* 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge ( d. 1852 )

* 1709 – Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter ( d. 1783 )

Anne's mother, Maria Branwell ( 1783 – 1821 ), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.

* 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works ( d. 1783 )

The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.

* 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( b. 1783 )

Thābit's formula was rediscovered by Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) and Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), to whom it is sometimes ascribed, and extended by Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ).

to date ( 1959 – 2008 ), definitive edition, through 1783.

French mathematician Étienne Bézout ( 1730 – 1783 ) proved this identity for polynomials.

Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.

* 1830 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military leader ( b. 1783 )

* 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor ( b. 1783 )

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer ( d. 1783 )

* Cremin, Lawrence A., " American Education: The Colonial Experience 1607 – 1783 ," First Edition, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

* 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1717 )

Phillip wrote to Townshend from Rio de Janeiro on 25 April 1783, expressing his disappointment that the ending of the American War had robbed him of the opportunity for naval glory in South America.

The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the American War of Independence and sent a wave of British loyalist refugees northward to Quebec and Nova Scotia.

* 1783 – American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

* 1725 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot ( d. 1783 )

After victory had been finalized in 1783, Washington resigned rather than seize power, proving his opposition to dictatorship and his commitment to American republicanism.

Spain later recouped most of those territorial losses with the Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ), which ended the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ), and gained an improved international standing.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.

This settled a boundary dispute caused by ignorance of actual geography in the boundary agreed to in the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.

* 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.

* 1783 – The Kingdom of Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the American Revolutionary War ( also known as the American War of Independence ).

1783 – 1845 ) from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

John Hanson ( April 14, 1721November 22, 1783 ) was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution.

* 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.

4, The Methodists, 1783 – 1840: A Collection of Source Materials, New York: H. Holt & Co., – 800 p. of documents regarding the American frontier

* 1723 – Charles Carroll, American statesman ( d. 1783 )

The American Revolution ( 1776 – 1783 ) had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia.

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles ( later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris ).

* 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.