* 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 )

The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers.

The first manned hot-air balloon, designed by the Montgolfier brothers, takes off from the Bois de Boulogne, on November 21, 1783

On November 21, 1783, in Annonay, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d ' Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on December 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers.

However the first free flight ( i. e., untethered ) by manned craft was by balloon built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France in 1783.

Later, in December 1783, in recognition of their achievement, their father Pierre was elevated to the nobility and the hereditary appellation of de Montgolfier by King Louis XVI of France.

* 1783 – Joseph Montgolfier and Étienne Montgolfier launch the first hot air balloons

The modern age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers.

Despite this, the sons of a local Annonay paper-maker, Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier ascended in the first hot air balloon over the town on 4 June 1783.

His sky blue wallpaper with fleurs-de-lys was used in 1783 on the first balloons by the Montgolfier brothers.

On June 4, 1783, Annonay was the location of the Montgolfier brothers first public unmanned hot air balloon flight.

The first successful manned balloon flight had taken place on 21 November 1783, when Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d ' Arlandes took off at the Palace of Versailles in a free flying hot air balloon constructed by the Montgolfier brothers.

This role began as early as 1783, when the king of France summoned the Montgolfier brothers to demonstrate their balloon.

The first recorded manned flight was made in a hot air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers on 21 November 1783.

In November 1783, from the grounds of the Château de la Muette, Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d ' Arlandes made the first successful manned flight in a hot-air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers.

Apart from some scattered reference in ancient and medieval records, resting on slender evidence and in need of interpretation, the earliest clearly verifiable human flight took place in Paris in 1783, when Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d ' Arlandes went in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers.

On 1 December 1783 their second hydrogen-filled balloon made a manned flight piloted by Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert, 10 days after the first manned flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon.

He and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight on 21 November 1783, in a Montgolfier balloon.

The first public demonstration of a balloon by the Montgolfier brothers took place in June 1783, and was followed by an untethered flight of a sheep, a cockerel and a duck from the front courtyard of the Palace of Versailles on 19 September.

After several tethered tests to gain some experience of controlling the balloon, de Rozier and d ' Arlandes made their first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon on 21 November 1783, taking off at 1: 54 p. m. from the garden of the Château de la Muette in the Bois de Boulogne, in the presence of the King.

Montgolfier, & c. ( 1783, 1784 ).

Other items of interest range from a gilded bronze medallion of the Montgolfier brothers, created in 1783 by Jean-Antoine Houdon ( 1741 – 1828 ), the Glider Massia-Biot ( 1879 ), an 1884 electric motor by Arthur Constantin Krebs ( 1850 – 1935 ), the rear gondola of the 1915 Zeppelin LZ 113, equipped with 3 Maybach engines, type HS, a 1916 SPAD VII aircraft by Blériot-SPAD, a 1917 Airco DH. 9 aircraft by Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), and a 1918 Junkers D. I aircraft by Hugo Junkers ( 1859 – 1935 ), to the 1961 Dassault Mirage IIIC by Marcel Dassault ( 1892 – 1986 ), an SSBS S3 surface-to-surface ballistic missile commissioned in 1981, and a 2002 Dassault-Breguet Super Étendard model.